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G E N E R A L 8 T R IK E . IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Thursday, D ecem ber 21. plac«*s vacant, from which assignments The senate was in iw-ssion hut a little will lie made for (iearin. They are for more than an hour today. Of this time est reservations, |iensions. Industrial only about a half hour was h-gislativ« ex|Misitions, national banks and claims. An character. The credentials of Ocarín, of Oregon, O ppose the Jo in t B ill. were |ireaanted and the senator sworn Prescott, Arix., Dec. 20. — A t the in. cloee of the annual banquet of the The hill eitendlng for one year the Northern Arixona Bar association, a tim e allowed for building the Council strong res«dution was unanimously C ity A Holomon Kiver railroad in Alas adopted declaring its unalterable oppo ka was passed. sition to the joint statehood bill and Adjournment was taken until Janu instructing the secretary to forward a ary 4. copy, with the signature of each mem ber attached, to Speaker Cannon, Dele- There was hut a ten-minute session gat Mark Smith and Congressmen -of the house Unlay, when the holiday Hamilton, Tawney, and Adams, and adjournment until January 4 was Senators Koraker, Flint and Perkins. taken. Two speeches, one attacking Strong speeches denouncing the bill and the other defending the cotton crop were made. estimates of the government, were to have bean made, hut |>ermiaaion was C h a rte r fo r Alaska C able. granted to print these speeches in the Wagbington, Dec. 20.— Senator F’ul- Kecorrd. ton today introtloced a bill authorising the North American Telegraph A Cable Wednesday, D ecem ber 2 0 . company, incorporated in the state of The senate adopted a motion recall Washington, to construct telegraphic ing its confirmation of canal commie- cables from the coast of Washington to aioners. It is understood that the ob Alaska, the Aleutian island, Siberia, ject of the move is to permit a protest Manchuria, China, Japan an«l the against Chairman Hhonts holding a po Philippines and requiring the operation sition on the commission and the presi of the cable within five years. Among dency of the Clover I-eaf railroad at the directors of the company are prom <he earns time. inent North wee :ern men. The only notable feature of the open 'session l<elay was a brief discussion on Abandon M a lh e u r P ro je c t. the <|uestion of railroad legislation by Washington, Dec. 20. — Secretary Foraker and Culberson. Hitchcock texlay called on the Reclama The lions«* continued to "shoot clay tion service to show why the Malheur pigeons" today, as one member re irrigation project shouhl not lie aban marked, and debate on several topics doned. It is believe<l that this is a pre «rontimiiHl for five hours. The general liminary step to lie followed by the .debate which has been in progress for witiidrawal of engin«*ers from that several days ended with belay's session, country, leaving Malheur county to .and tomorrow the s«*ssion w ill lie brief. private enterprise. The house agreed on the conference N o In terest in Black Sand. report on the Panama canal appropria tio n bill. Washington, Ihjc. 20. — The house Just before adjournment a bili was today refuMe«l to consider a resolution passed extending until 1909 the time in to ask the secretary of the interior the which the 60 miles of railroad from results of experiments in ascertaining Oeuncil City to Solomon, Alaska, may the mineral value of black sand. t>e completed. Payne gave notice that the Ph ilip H A R B O R IM P R O V E M E N T . pine tariff bili w ill lie called up for consideration January 4. Needham, of (California, introduce«] Convention W ill Devise S chem e fo r C o -o p e ra tio n o f S tates. a bill providing for the repeal of the 4Juban reciprocity treaty. He said the Washington, Dec. 22.— The National treaty liad resulted in serious loss of Rivers and Harbors congress, comported revenue, as the Cutiana buy eatensive- of commercial men form all parts of the ly in ttie United Ntates, and «loes not United Htates, is to hold a meeting in give Americans an opportunity to get Washington on January 16 and 16, to anything in return for the reductions consider some plan of aiding the na in tariff on Cuban pro«iocts. tional government in the improvement of the principal waterways. In an Tuesday, D a c a m b ar 19. nouncing the meeting the officers of the The senate today accepted tha¡Pana- congress state that the government is roa canal emergency appropriation bill now exi>ending about 116.000,000 a year on waterway improvements, an al as originally passed by the house. Heyburn ma«le a new move in his together ina lequate sum to meet the fight on fortwt reserves by introducing demands of commerce. It is apparently a resolution calling on the secretary of understood that this amount w ill not agriculture for a statement of receipts be materially increased, since l.'IO.000,- and expenditures aiade by the forest 000 Bt*ems to the the average maximum service, also the amount of school land of river and harbor bills, which are passed every two years. Jncludt*d in forest niservations. There is a growing sentiment in con Fulton inrodned a bill to relieve bona flile settlers on Northern Pacific lands gress in favor of requiring the states where such settlements were made sub- and the larger cities to contribute heav ily to the cost of improving the great s<M|uent to January 1, 1898. A large grist of app«iintments were waterways, and the time is coming when congress w ill require each state confirmed. Senator Dolliver ¡ntl<xleuced his rate to expend an amount etpial to the na b ill biday. It authorises the commis tional appropriation for the improve sion to fix and enforce a maximum and ment of the waterways of that state. Realising this condition, the Nation reasonable rate, to go into eftoct 20 days alter notice. The commission also al Rivers and llarltors congress intemls to take time by the forelock and devise provi«lt*s for seven members. some plan which w ill meet the require The house continued debating the ments of congress and at tlie same time Insurance «inestion Uxlay. The day result in the greater improvement of was passed without legislation and end- rivers and harbors. *xl with an amusing debate on the ques tion of the appointment of a janitor at N E W B U IL D IN G S IN R U IN S . fttO per month to the reeeption room on the minority side of the chamlier. T w o G re a t Railway T erm in a ls on the In the end the janitor was not appoint Hudson R iver B urned. ed. New York, Dec. 22.—The Delaware, The house committee on ways ami means favorably reported Payne’ s bill Ijxckawanna A Western railroad, which admitting all Philippine products into a few months ago suffered the loss of the Uniterl Htate* fr«*e, excepting sugar its Hoboken terminal buildings by fire, and tobacco, which are to pay 26 per sustaine«! a still heavier loss today, ■cent of the Dingley rate until 1909, when the new ferry terminals of steel when they are also to go on the free frame and supixisedly fireproof con struction, at the foot of West Twenty- list. _________ third street, Manhattan, were burne«l C o m m ittee Places Filled. to the ground. Workmen were putting Washington, Dec. 20.— Northwestern the finishing touches on the building senators were assigns«! committees to when the fire started, shortly before day. Piles, In addition to the chair the noon hour. The flames quickly communicated to manship of coast an«l insular survey, g«>es on interoceanic canals, pensions, the new ferry house of the Central territories, Canadian relations and ex Railroad of New Jersey, which, with amination of the civil service. Hey- the I,ackawanna terminals, was con burn, in addition to his old commit eidere«l the finest ferry building in the tees, goes on immigration and public FLast, and this structure also was al buildings. There are several minority most totally destroyed. P re g c h e r* on C anal P ayroll. W arships Prevent Riots. Washington, Dec. 20.— Senator Lodge to«lay presented to the senate, in am plification of his denial mails on Friday of the charge that women had bwn taken to the Isthmus of Panamia under the authority of the canal commission and distributed among laborers for im moral purposes, a letter from Secretary Taft and all of the correspomlence that has been has on this subject. The sec retary (lunim this and says that already there are several preachers of different creeds on the isthmus in the pay of the commission. London, Dec. 22.— According to offi cial advices receive«I here Uxlay from Shanghai, it is believed that the situa tion, while most unsatisfactory, can be controlled by the warships already there. The only danger is that dis affection may spread to the interior. It is thought that it w ill not be neces sary to send troops, as the Chinese gov ernment is taking precautions to pre vent an uprising. The foreign office has disapproved the action of the Brit ish assessor in confining Chinese wo men prisoners in a foreign jail. Russian L ead ers Openly Defy Gov ern m en t by M anifesto. Ht. Petersburg, Dec. 20.— A call for a general political strike throughout Russia, to begin Thursday at noon, was issue«l tonight. The call is approved by (he Union of Unions, the Union of Peasants, the General Railway union and the Council of Workmen of Ht. Petersburg and M« jscow . A response receive«i from the railroad men of M« js - cow is unanimous for a strike. The leaders have declare«l their abil ity to stop every train in Russia. The strike order readers every member of the unions signing it liable to arrest and punishment under the new strike law, and Minister of the Interior Dur- novo attempted to telegraph orders to Moscow to arrest members of the R ail way union and of the workmen’ s coun cil, but the dispatches were held up by the railroad telegraphers. The members of the Ht. Petersburg Council of Workmen had been notified by the General Railway union and the Mfjecow Council of Workmen that in principle they were ready for a strike, but that they hesitated on practical grounds. The Ht. Petersburg leaders, however, felt that their prestige would suffer severely unless they could answer the government’ s determined offensive with a counter stroke, while many who were committed to full revolution sec retly decidetl that the ground would be swept from under their feet should the government promulgate a law granting universal suffrage. W IT T E O N L Y T IT U L A R R U L E R . G o vern o r W hom H e Rem oved Gets H ig h e r O ffice. Boston, Dec. 20.— A communication to Russian revolutionist branches in Boston la s lx»en received by mail from Russia. It is issued by authority of the league of Leagues, and in part reads as follow s: Our suspicion of an inner and secret government superse«ling that of Count W itte has been confirmed. A case has just happened that prove«! the truth of our assertions. The governor of Odessa, Meidgard, who organized massacres in that city and province, was dismissed by W'itte for the hand he took in the work; he has now been appointed gov ernor of Nijni Novgorod. Count Witte, on being asked how he could give a new and even greater and higher appoint ment to such a notorious villain, re plied that the appointment was made not only without his consent, but even without his knowledge. The comunication relates that in sev eral of tiia provinces the exar’ s mani festo of emancipation was withheld by order of the secret government. Ha«l the manifesto been made public, the letter says, wholesale massacres would have been prevented. W R E C K E R S D R A W S P IK E S . Sm ash in Kansas Causes T w o Deaths and T w o Fatal In juries. WILLING TO BE GOOD REBELS IN CONTROL Railroads Hold Oof Olive Branch Russian Revolt Has Won In the to Commerce Commission. Baltic Provinces. ALL BIG ROADS OF ONE MIND CASTLES BECOME FORTS AGAIN D eath K nell to Illegal Practices Wil> Insurgent 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 ing W ithin F e w Dave. gion H aa Provisional H aad. Chicago, Dec. 23.— The railroad in terests of the entire country have decid ed to hold out the olive branch to the government and join hands with the Interstate Commerce commission to se cure a rigid enforcement of law. To this end two moves have been begun, one embracing all the railroads east of Chicago and Ht. Louis, and the other taking in all railroads west of the same points. The Flastern movement was begun several weexs ago, and the «»mmission has been asked to meet a committee of railway i»en in a conference regarding the situation in the Hast. The West ern movement is of more recent date and J. C. Htubbs, traffic rnnager of the Harriman linee, is in charge of it. Yesterday Mr. Htubbs wired the Inter state Commerce commission asking for an early conference between that body and a committee representing every Western railroad, to discuss plans for a joint effort to prevent further violations of the laws governing transportation. It is expected a date w ill be set before the close of the year, and the conference is likely to take place in Ht. Panl next Friday, when the commission has a bearing in that city. The railroads insist they are in earn est and that, if the commission is in sympathy with the move, it means th6 death knell of the freight rebate, the s«*cret rate or "m idnight ta riff" of pref erential rates, of arrangements with in dustrial railroads, of the payment of unlawful commissions, and, in short, the end of everything which comes within the purview of the interstate commerce act or the Elkins amend ment. Ht. Petersburg, Dec. 2 1 . — The war in the Baltic provinces bas spread throughout Lithuania. The insurgent army is believed to number 100,000, and it is constantly increasing. Women and children are participating in the hostile movement against the government forcee. Thirty thousand troops are either in retreat or are cooped np in the cities, where they lack provisions and most either surrender or be annihilated by the insurgents. Russian officials and some German barons have been imprisoned. A com mittee of Livonians and Jews is admin istering the affairs of the revolted re gion. It controls the rsilroads and telegraph linee, permitting private messages to pass over the latter, bnt -efusing all government communica tions. The mediaeval castles in these p ro vinces nave been turned into fortresses, some of which are held by their owners against the insurgents, while others are in the poeseeeion of the latter. Gue rilla warfare is in progress at many points. Except for a few beleaguered gsrrisions, the czar’ s rule is gone. Agrarian riots in the southern por tions of the empire are increasing. The landowners are fleeing to the towDS, leaving their property to the mercy of the rioters. Revolutionists are report ed to to bold Kharkoff and Sevastopol. In the latter city the soldiers demand the release of the imprisoned sailors who were concerned in the recent mu tinies. Finland continues to arm. A L L R A IL R O A D B ID S R EJEC TED . G overnm ent W ill Again O ffe r ^ C o n - cessions in Philippines. Washington, Dec. 23.— A ll the bids for concessionary contracts or grants for the construction of railroads in the Philippine islands, recently submitted to the bureau of insular affairs, were today rejected because of the departuree from the terms of the circular calling for proposals. 8ecretary Taft, after a number of conferences with Governor W right and Mr. Forbee, of the Ph ilip pine commission, and Colonel Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, today de cided to re-advertise the proposals, and January 20, at 10 a. m., has been fixed as the date for the opening of Dew bids. The terms w ill be modified in some particulars. Where bidders propose to construct the road without guarantee they w ill be limited in their bids only by the terms of the Philippine government railroads arts of 1902 and 1903. But where bidders wish to take advantage o! a guarantee of a certain interest on their investment, they can vary from the original invitation to bid only in point of time or on the coet of construc tion per mile as affected by contractors’ profits. and Food is S carce. Chicago, Dec. 20.— One fireman was killed and several employes may have lost their lives in a fire which de stroyed the enamel sign factory of the Charles M. Schonk company, 7 to 16 Park street, tonight. Until the ruins of the building have l>een searched, it w ill not be positively known whether any of the employee were killed, either in the explosion which started the fire or by the falling of the walls and floors which followexl s<xm afterward. The loss on the building and contents is estimated at f250,000. Ht. Petersburg, Dec. 23.— With the strike in foice throughout the entire empire, conditions are again becomng more and more alarming. W hile it is certain that the strike leaders are ab solutely oppoeed to violence, it begins to look as though they would be unable to control the forces. Famine is the one thing to be (eared, inasmuch as the supplies of tood within the city have been heavily drawn upon during the last 30 days, and now that all the out put of the foodstuffs is at an "end, prices are beginning to advance and the common people must certainly suffer. Only Guns P revent Bloodshed. French S M p on Voyage. St. Petersburg, Dec. 20.— A big loy alist demonstration had been planned for texlay, and was abandoned at the request of the prefect of police, who be lieved that it might provoke bloodshed. Batteries of machine guns are stationed at several points of vantage throughout the city, and infantry anil Cossacks are everywhebe. A specially heavy guard is stationed in the neighbortnxxl of the Jewish market. N um bers W ell A rm ed M en— Revolted Ra Reading, Kan., Dec. 20.— Santa Fe train No. 17, west bound, was wrecked at Badger creek, five miles west of Reading, at 3 o’ clock this morning. One express car turned over and caught fire. Express Messenger F!. E. Der rick, of Kansas City, was killed out right, and Fmgineer Henry Davis, of Topeka, was so badly injured that he die«l soon after being taken out of the wreck. Two other express messengers were prot>ably fatally injured. Two passengers in the smoker were slightly injured. It is t>elieve«l the train was ditched by wreckers. The spikes securing one rail had been remov«>d. Three other passenger trains, including Superin A L L R U S S IA P A R A L Y Z E D . tendent Fox’ s special, had passed over the same tracks a short time before No. E m p ire T ie d U p by G en eral S trik e 17 was wrecked. W alls Fall on T h em . A rm y Be Sounded at S t. Paul M e e t Paris, Dec. 23. — A cruiser detached from the French squadron at Saigon, French Indo-China, is now proceeding to Shanghai. The officials here say this is a measure of precaution, as no French interests have as yet been dis turbed. The recent disturbances oc- curre«l in the international concession, which is separated from the French conceesion. An official dispatch from from Pekin today says an imperial edict jnst issued, following energetic protests on the part of foreign minis C uba W ill Kill O f f M osquitoes. Havana, Dec. 20.— President Palma ters, promises to end the trouble. has authorized an additional expendi T ro o p s to Suppress Revolt. ture of 1200,000 for sanitary purposes in Havana. Although yellow fever is Psris, Dec. 23. — The Ht. Petersburg disappearing, the extermination of correspondent of the Petit Parisien, in mosquitoes w ill be continued. One a dispatch dated yesterday, says that new case o f yellow fever was reported the government is preparing to sup today. press the revolt along the Baltic. H O O D O O O F KANSAS S EN A TO R S Beginning in 1861, the O ffice Been Full o f T ro u b le . H as Topeka, Kan., Dec. 21.— “ The fatal succession" is the name Kansas haa given to the eenatorship of which Jos eph Ralph Burton, the latest incum bent, is under conviction of grafting. A dark hned bird of evil omen seems to watch over those who take the seat first occupied by James H. Lane. The h<xxioo started at the ontset. In 1861, when Kaneas was admitted as a state and chose two senators, they toesed a coin to see which should get the short or lonr-year term. It went to Lane. He served his term, was re-elected, and committed suicide. E. C. Rose, appointed to succeed him, failed to heed the demand of Kansas for the impeachment of Preei- dent Johnson. Ross’ vote saved the president, but Roee was defeated for re-election, cast aside, and now lives • humble life. Alexander Caldwell took the place, held it two years, and resigned, it is said, to avoi«i fighting chargee. Robert Croxier was appointed and onsted as soon as the legislature met. James M. Harvey was elected and de feated for renomination. Preston P. Plumb was then choeen, was re-elected twice, and died a tragic death within a year after starting his third term. B. W . Perkins could hold the job after appointment only until the legis lature convened. John Matrin, his successor. held the place two years and dropped out of sight. Lucien Baker served his fnll term of six years, bnt was forced to* withdraw from the race for re-election. Joeepn Ralph Burton succeeded him, and before half his term was served was under jail sentence. The line of Kansas senators who suc ceeded Pomeroy, chosen simultaneous ly with Lane, has numbered but five, and included the brilliant Ingalls an«l the highly esteemed W. A. Harris. Dynam ite K ills T h re e . New York Dec. 21.— Three men were blown to pieces seven others were more or less seriously hurt and the occupants of fashionable hotels and residences in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Thirty- fourth street were startled today by an explosion of dynamite in an excavation for the new Altmon building. Frag ments of the bodies of the dead were scattered over an area of hundreds of feet. The explosion was caused by a workman striking a heavy charge of dynamite which had defied all efforts to explode it at the proper time. K illed by Robbers in M exico. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 21.— Two men name«! Rutherford and McMurray, both from Philadelphia, were killed last night by highwaymen on a ranch at Diaz, a small settlement in Chihuahna, Mexico. A man named Finatad, of Los Angeles, and another known as "Shor t y " were wounded.