OREGON COURIER
A, W. CHENEY, Publlabar.
OREGON CITY OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAY
I TORE THROUGH IOWA
oneri will bare their cases considered
and passed upon after five months, and
a fourth portion after one year.
The honae oommittee on public landi
baa ordered a favorable report on the
bill for the maintenance of aobooli of
minei in palbio land atatea and terri
tories, by granting eaoh state from the
prooeeda from the Bale of mineral
landi $15,000 for the current year and
an annnal Inoreaae of $1,000 per year
for ten years.
White Buffalo, oantain of Indian
Telegraphic police on the Cheyenne reservation, has Who, wipad out mt as.i.tence
applied ror a pennon, on scoonnt i in- arnaw mnuii
juriei sustained while a member of the miuoia aud Michigan.
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TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES juries. anoh a. would give a white tTJSSJS&lSSt
man a penaion. White Buffalo 4b a . . 'L .... .J, v. .ul
Halt a Hundred Lives Lost in
a Cyclone.
STORIES TOLD BY EYEWITNESSES
Epitome of the
News ot the World.
A a latareatlng Collection of Iteroi From
Ska Two Hemlspheree I'reaented
In a Condenaed Form.
Word bai been reoeived of the mur
der in Cuba of Walton E. Stalle, an
American, for bis money.
Archduke Cbarlea LoniB of Austria,
eldest brother of Emperor Francis
Joseph, died in Vienna, aged 64.
Tom Linton, a Welshman, beat the
biojole record from the fifth mile up
ward, in Paris, oovering thirty miles
within one hour.
John D. Jones, who stamped to death
1 Tin a fit of anger Mrs. Mendenball, at
the Anna. 111., fair last full, was
banged at Murphysboro. He professed
xepentanoe.
The Western Federation of Miners
has decided to amalgamate with the
American Federation of Labor, and
wil elect delegates to the convention
of the bitter body.
Dr. Thomas Benn was shot by his
' wife in Chioauo. The woman fired five
times. Two bullets entered the doc
tor's bead and be will probably die.
Jealousy was the oause.
James Dazzle (oolored), was taken
from the jail in St Bernard's parish,
Louisiana, and lynched. He was ar
rested for attempting to outrage a
white woman near the Patterson plan'
tation.
Harry ! Jones and Frank Jefferess,
two oonviotB at Ban (juentin, got into
a quarrel during whiob Jefferess
stabbed Jones with a knife, indicting
a wound from whiob Jones died shortly
afterward.
General Viouna, the Bpanisb com
under, is dead of yellow fever, at
Corral Falso, in Matanzas, where he
has been sick for several days past.
His body will be buried in the oity of
Matanaas.
Lillian Russell, while riding ber
golden wheel near Central Park, New
York, collided with an unknown cyol
iat, and was thrown to the pavement.
Her costly wheel was smashed and her
ankle was hurt
son of Bitting Bull, and baa always
been loyal to the whites as a polioeman
and soldier.
Upon representation ot Indian
Agent Stonob, at Tongue River agency,
Mont., transmitted through and in
dorsed by the interior department, the
war department sent orders to General
Brooke, commanding the department
of Dakota, to send troops from Fort
Custer to the agency to preserve order
and stop the killing of cattle by the In
dians. Probably two troops of the
Tenth oavalry will be sent, but Gen
eral Brooke is allowed to use discre
tion.
New York has the first daily paper
devoted to wheeling published in the
English language. It is called the
Daily American Wheelman,
The General Trana-Atlantiqne Com
pany Has advanoed freight rates on
specie one-eighth per oent on lots of
$600,000 or over, either gold or silver.
The North German Gazette says:
The government is desirous of the total
abolition of the sugar import bounties,
provided the other states enter an
agreement to take similar action.
A cloudburst occurred near Perry,
O. T., eight to twelve inobea of rain
falling. Residences and business build
ings on high, level ground were flood
ed, while houses along Cow oreek were
washed away.
Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who,
as an officer in the government deteo
tive servioe, had charge of the party
which oaptnred J. Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of President Lincoln, died in
Lansing, Mich., aged 60 years.
John Taggart, of Big Stone Gap,
Ky., was killed, and twelve others
Mrs. Louise A. Bpeetzen, an attrao
tive and entertaining woman, laughed
kerselt to death in Oakland, Cal. The
ase was a peculiar one, and attracted
the attention of a number of Oakland
pfayeioians, who attended the lady.
The striking firemen of the Armour
paoking plant, of Kansas City, who
went out May 6 for increased wages
and fewer hours, have compromised
their affairs and lifted their boycott
against the oompany's meats and re
imrned to work.
A London dispatch says the British
foreign office baa decided upon the is
sue of a supplementary blue book rela
tive to Venezuela, very Bbortly. The
forthcoming volume will oontain im
portant additional historical evidenoe
in support of the British case.
f What is claimed to be the largest
strike ever made in the Ainsworth, B.
C, camp was unoovered on the Termi
nus, owued by Spokane parties. At
the end of a 200-foot tunnel a 40-foot
ledge was struck of high-grade ore, av
eraging $147 per ton gold and silver.
A Cairo dispatoh says a death from
cholera is reported among the Egyptian
troops at Tourha. A regular oholera
miasma is broodiug over Cairo with
the heavy air and the hot winds. The
virulence of the disease is almost un
paralleled at such an early stage of vis
itation. The percentage of deaths is 90.
In Nahant, Mass., an incipient blaze
from a painter's lamp at the summer
cottage ouoe occupied by the poet Long
fellow, on Willow road, was the be
ginning of a fierce fire, whiob fanned
by a strong southwest gale, devoured
ire handsome summer residences and
contents, entailing a loss of about
$100,000.
A special from Caracas says: The
Veneaeula government has offered to
release the schooner New Day, but the
owners refuse to aooept under oondi
tiona attaohod. The English govern
ment will push the olaima of the own
era. This makes new complications in
the relations between England and
Tanesuela.
The flood situation in Crookston,
Minn., is becoming very serious, the
rise in the Red Lake river having been
very rapid by reason ot continuous and
opious rains. The flood is gaining,
and the water is two or three feet deep
'a some of the principal streets, while
an some of the residence districts entire
floors have been flooded.
The Arctic explorer. Lieutenant
Peary, is going North again this sum
mar, aud a steamer is now being ar
tanjrde in St John's, N. F., for that
purpose. The object of the expedition
as believed to be to secure far the
Philadelphia academy of adduce the
40-ton meteorite near Cape York,
which Peary discovered last year.
A dispatoh baa been reoeived in Lon
don from Governor Sir Hercules Rob
inson relative to the sentences imposed
vpon the reformers at Pretoria, which
ays a number of the prisoners will be
saleased immediately, and others in
three months. A third lot of the pris-
daagerously wounded in a gas explo
sion in the mines near Big Stone Gap.
Part of the mine oaved in. It is be'
lieved six of the injured will die.
roe boiler in Davidson Bros. ' saw
mill, near Marietta, Ind., exploded
with terriflo foroe, fatally injuring
Eunice Davidson, Thomas Davidson
and Frank Battran. Six others were
more or leas injured.
Near Atlantio, la., the combination
train on the Griswold branoh of the
Rook Island was ditched by striking a
mule. All the oars and engine went
into the ditch, but the ooaoh, crowded
with passengers, remained on the
track. Several were injured, but none
seriously,
The property at Elizabeth, N. J., of
the defunot United States Cordage
Company, has been sold by the sheriff
oi union oonnty, H. J., to satisfy a
mortgage held by the United States
Trust Company, of New York. The
plant, which was valued at nearly
$1,000,000 was sold for $30,000.
The London Cbroniole'a Rome oor
respondent says: News baa been re
oeivd from Valparaiso that on the in'
itiative of Chile, it baa been deoided to
establish between Brazil, Chile and
Argentina another commercial agree'
ment applying the principles of the
Monroe doctrine to South Amerioa,
Henry Walker, residing near Broken
Bow, Neb. , murdered his wife, bis ex-
ouse being that she had attempted to
poison him, and he killed her as a mat
ter of self protection. He purohaseu a
revolver and deliberately arranged 11
the details. The murderer is a
wealthy farmer, prominent and wtll
known. .
The ooal product of the United
States, for the calendar year 1896,
as near as can be estimated tonight, the
result of the destructive tornado whioh
swept portions of Iowa, Illinois and
Kansas last night. The property Iobs
is heavy, but accurate estimates thus
far are impossible. The list of killed
stands as follows:
Jasper county, Iowa, 10; Polk coun
ty, Iowa, 9; Kockford county, Iowa,
; Elgin oonnty, Iowa, 1; North Mc
Gregor, Iowa, 12; Durango, Iowa, 6;
Fort Scott, Kan., 2.
The storm wrought its greatest bavoo
in Iowa, where the counties of Polk
and Jasper were devastated by two
tornadoes, The loss of life was heaviest
there.
The storm originated near the town
of Ankeny, ninety-five miles north of
Des Moines.. As near as oan be ascer
tained from those who saw the sight,
two olouds, one from the northwest
and one from the southwest, met and
dropped down on the earth and wrought
their havoc on all that was loose and
fast. The storm moved northeastward.
Near the town of Bondurant it killed
its first victims, the members of the
Bailey family. The storm was seen
coming from Bondurant. Many farm
ers who bad attended the ohurch serv
ices had been unable to get home before
the storm, and their lives were thus
saved. The traok of the tornado at
this point was about a quarter ot a
mile wide. It passed onward, going
north of the town of Santiago. All
along the oourse the fenoes and build'
ings, crops and trees were completely
destroyed. In places bark was peeled
from the trees, houses were lifted up
and hnrled down and broken into spun
ters; oellars were heaped full of mud,
and debris, olten partially covering
those who bad taken refuge in them,
THE BERMUDA NEARLY CAUGHT
Haa
Bpanlah
Narrow Kicape From
tlunboata.
New York. May 20. News reached
this city today from Puerto Cortes,
Honduras, that the Steamship Ber
muda, with a large party of filibusters
and a cargo of ammunition and provis
ions, bad a narrow escape from being
oaptnred by tbe Bpanisb Warships on
her last cruise to Cuba. This was tbe
Bermuda's seoond suooessful trip.
, She crossed the St John's river bar
April 1.7, in oommand of Captain E.
U. Rellly. The Bermuda hove to at a
place on the nortnern coast of Cuba,
some ten miles east pf Cardenas, and
at onoe began to lower her boats.
It was said today by one in autboirty
that tbe first boat capsized, being over-.
loaded, and tnat five men were
drowned, among them a brother of
Colonel Nicholas de Cardenas, one of
tbe insurgent leaders.
A BRIDGE CAVE WAY
Crowded Street Car Plunges
Into Victoria Harbor.
OVER SIXTY PERSONS KILLED
rba Car Waa Completely Submerged
and Jta Osenpanta War Drowned
-LJat of tbe Dead.
Seattle, Wash., May 28. A Post-In
telligenoer special from Victoria says
from the brightness and joy of holi
day festivities Victoria was today
plunged into the darkness and horror
of a terrible accident, which sent
thrill of nnuterable sadness through
The cargo was all landed, when one th.e "di of guests and filled the
of the boats got adrift. Some of v J "-""
the party began shouting. Sudden
ly tbe flash of an electric light was
seen directly over the ship s masthead.
The shouts of the men in the boat had
been heard by a Spanish warship.
There was a flash and a roar, and a
solid shot passed about 300 feet astern
of the ship.
Captain Reilly headed his ship west'
ward, and was pulling away from the
Spaniards very quiokly. A few min
utes after a second shot was fired and
went wide. Then it waa discovered
that two Spanish gunboats were in
pursuit The Bermnda had no trouble
in showing the Spaniards her heels.
An electric tram
car on its way from the oity to the
scene of the military parade and sham
battle, crashed through the Ellice point
bridge, and, without a moment s warn
ing, sixty-one souls were plunged into
eternity.
Knowing that the programme of the
day bad been planned with special care,
hundreds of visitors poured into the
oity from all directions, and swelled
tbe crowd already in attendance.
Early in the afternoon tbe crowd be
gan making its way toward the parade
ground. The main route from tbe city
is by the eleotrio cars, whioh cross Vic
toria arm on a bridge at Ellice point.
So anxious were the people to get
away that two cars leaving tbe oity
Those who had fled to oaves were in
variably saved, but so sudden waa the
approaoh of tbe storm that many were
unable to find that shelter, though the
oaves were only a few rods from them,
Passing onward the storm struck Va
leria. The railroad bridge on the Chi
oago Great Western was the first objeot
it wrestled with. Tbe bridge was oom
pletely demolished, and the raila were
twisted and bent out of shape. The
town was almost completely ruined,
The buildings were demolished when
they stood in the full foroe of the
storm, and those whioh stood along the
edges of the storm were moved and
twisted, and in other ways injured.
sohoolhouse was taken away bodily,
and fragments of it have so far escaped
d isoo very,
There were some strange pranks
played near this town. An old man
holding a babe was lifted up and
dropped into an adjoining field without
the least injury being done to either
bim or the child
Leaving the wrecked town, tbe storm
moved forward, laying the oonntry
bare, wreoking houses and killing the
inmates. One observer near Valeria,
who saw the storm aud observed it
carefully, says that the cloud appeared
to be a high balloon, dark green in
color, witn a light streak in the cen
ter. It traveled at a tremendous rate,
tearing up the largest trees by the roots
or stripping them olean off, driving
posts into the earth, twisting buildings
in the edge of its track, end first, spat
tering the houses close to it with mud
and sand, stripping hedges and lioking
the grass from tbe fields. From Vale
ria the storm moved on, passing near
the town of Mingo.
Later in the evening, a tornado seems
to have struok near Manchester, in
shows the output of the Northwest Delaware county, although reports are
very meager from there. It is possible
that this was the same storm, and that,
after traveling 150 miles in the air, it
once more dipped down to the earth
and laid bare a strip half a mile wide
and six or eight miles long.
states to be: Oregon, 73,686 short tons
product, valued at $247,901; Washing
ton, 1,191,410 short tons, with a valua
tion ot $2,677,068; Montana, 1,489,193
short tons, valued at $2,816,900,
A dispatoh from Basse Terre, Island
of Guadloupe.West Indies, says: Jap
anese immigrants are again iu rebel
lion. The uprising has become so for
niidable as to cause planters grave anx
iety. The colonial government is
adopting drastic measures to suppress
the insurrection, notwithstanding the
stipulations of the treaty.
General Lucius Fairohild, command-er-in-cbief
of the Loyal Legion and ex-commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R.,
died at his residonoe in Madison, Wis.
General Fairohild had suffered from
the effects of the grippe for several
weeks, and a month ago the ailment
was complicated by kidney trouble.
Until five days ago, it was thought he
would reoover.
The senate oommittee on interstate
oommeroe baa authorized the reporting
of a bill for tbe uniform clarification
of railroad freight rates framed on the
linea reoommended by tbe national
board of trade. It will require an in
terstate oommeroe commission to pre
pare and publish a classification whiob
shall apply to all sections of the
oonntry.
a manna aispatcn says: in conse
quence of tbe representations made by
tbe American government, the Spanish
cabinet will try to induce Captain
General Weyler to reconsider bia pro
bibition of the export of leaf tobaooo
to foreign countries. Tbe edict has
been weloomed in Spain and Havana,
as a clever blow dealt at the people who
are considered to be chief abettors of
the insurrection.
Coloraoo Minora Strike.
Denver. May 27. A special to the
Rocky Mountain News from Louis
ville, Colo., states that the Western
Federation of Miners has oalled a strike
on the ooal mines operated by the Unit
ed Coal Company and the Citizens'
Coal Company. The strike was oaused
by tbe discharge of eight men at the
Simpson mine, and was over an old
trouble with the company in refusing
to reinstate twenty-two men who were
discharged, tbe company declining to
adopt the schedule under whioh the
men were working. About 600
miners are affected.
Seceaalon In Peru.
New York, May 27. A Herald diS'
patch from Buenos Ayres says: The
Herald's correspondent in Manaos,
Brazil, sends word that a boat arriving
there from Iquitos, Pern brings news
that Colonel Seminarios, leader of the
movement to make the depaitment of
Loreto, Fern, an independent state, has
called into the field all persons able to
carry arms. Colonel Seminarios bas
raised about 8,000 men to resist tbe
troops of President Pierola. They have
only old-style arms. A small steamer
has been armed for service on the
Amazon river. Seminarios has issued
a proclamation declaring the independ
ence of the new state.
Gblneae Counter. eltera.
San Franoisoo, May 26. At last the were filled, and every available space
United States seoret service authorities on the platforms occupied bv those
have struck a lead to tbe source whence who afterwards went down into the
have come the almost perfect imitation arm. Before leaving, the car men had
of half dollars circulated throughout to order off a number of young men
tbe coast. and bovs who had climbed upon the
it is oeneved tne counterieits, roofs of the oars. . The first of these
which absolutely defy detection, except cars got over Point Ellice bridge safelv
under a powerful magnifying glass in but when the other was about half way
tne nanos oi a clever expert, were made acrotm an ominous sound was heard
by Chinese, in their native land, and that told of something giving way,
brought to this oonntry last summer by and soon the middle span of the bridge,
members or tbe troupe of Chinese about 150 feet in length, swerved
auiuin wuu uauie iu an'eriua 10 periurin nortnward toward tne gorge, tne car
at the Atlanta exposition. It is esti- sliding in the same direction. The
mated that 20,000 of the unauthorized tide was high at the time, and the car
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
coins have been disposed of by the
Chinese, and that "Little Pete," tbe
Chinese of recent raoetrack job no
toriety, was back of tbe sobenie.
A Dlaaatroua Cloudburst.
Marshall town, la., May 26. A
cloudburst today, between Lamoille
and State Center, oaused Linn creek,
which flows through this city, to rise
in one hour from a mere rivulet to a
river a half mile wide. The Chicago L j... i.,jj u
and roadbed L nft K,,.jn 'tho mrir f
seriously damaged, the flood destroying aIldthe nnfortnnate8 who were sub-
ya auu uruwuiug uuiiBiaeraDie nve- merged in the oar.
situuk. a neavy nan acoomnanien tne ti a . . i j
" iud hid unuaiiiuituiii ninu lui uhii
was completely submerged when it
struck tbe bottom, going down into
fully fifteen feet of water. The peo
pie who were packed on the platforms
were in the most fortunate position,
The majority of those who escaped in
jury from falling timbers succeeded in
saving themselves, as there was snf
floient debris floating adout on whioh
they could make their way to shore.
Soon boats aud carriages came from
rain. Tbe railroad yards in this oity
are submerged, and dwellings in tbe
lowlands flooded to a depth of three
feet. Some of the residents were res
ouea in Doats, saving narrow escapes.
Railroad traffic cannot be resumed for
a day or two. Iowa river is also on
the biggest rampage for fifteen years.
Deadly Gaaollne Stove.
Chicago, May 26. By tbe explosion
of a gasoline stove on Townsend street
today a family of six persons waa al
most exterminated. Four are dead
and a fifth is so badly burned that
death is almost certain.
Mrs. Malm, the wife and mother,
had arisen to prepare breakast, and her
hnsband and children were still asleep
In bed. She lighted a gasoline stove,
when the reservoir which holds the
apply of oil, exploded, throwing the
burning fluid about tbe rooms. Before
the sleeping members of the family
oould be taken out or even warned,
they were shut in by the flames and
named almost to a orisp.
out
and assisted materially in the work of
rescue. Captain Grant's grounds and
house were thrown open to reoieve
those apparently drowned. As soon as
the bodies were taken from the water,
wolunteers, acting under the direotion
of the majority of the medical men of
tbe oity, who quickly arrived on the
scene, began tbe work of resuscitating.
In many cases their efforts were
orowned with Buccess. Those who
showed signs of life were given warm
clothing at Captain Grant's or else
where and taken to their homes or
boarding houses. While many Victor
ians were on the fatal oar, thd major
ity were visitors, and the work of iden
tification is consequently difficult.
THE CZAR CORONATED.
Dr. Peters, tbe African explorer,
is about to undertake a new explora
tion of Somaliland under the audioes
of a nnmbr of wealthy Americana.
Mnholaa II Crowned Kuler or All the
Kuatlaa.
Tampa, Fla., May 28. A tobacco
merchant, who has just returned here
from Havana, says of the situation in
Cuba:
A Woman Miner. It goes against the grain to credit
Baker City, Or., May 26. Mrs. W. a11 stories of atrocities which have
Ainsworth is tbe only woman in Ore- reached Havana from the interior of
gon who can handle a miner's pick in Cuba, yet many of these stories are
regulation style. She and her family, substantially true.
consisting of her husband and four Every one who has been able to get,
children, live in Sparta, Or., at the I out into tbe field of warfare bas
edge of town. When through with her brought back confirmation of tbe re
household duties, she amuses herself Ports which have crept into tbe oity
by doing a little placer mining, undergound. Some of these slaughters
Three days ago she ground-sluiced a Daye 1)6611 wholesale. In some in
patch of ground six feet square, right stances they have taken the form of
t tbe back of her residence, and as a executions without trial of one or two
result she added $31 in gold to her pin sympathizers with the rebellion. In
money. Tbe clean-up included a gold otners tney nave Deen simple assassina
nugget valued at $7.25. Mr. Ains-Uions-
worth is the possessor of some valuable "These killings are justified on tbe
placer ground in the vicinity of Sparta, ground that apparent nouoombatants
and a man of considerable means.
A Sklrinlah With Garcia.
Havana, May 26. Colonel Motons.
near Santa Clara province, came in
sight of the insurgent band of Zayas,
The insurgents abandoned one pris
oner, who declared that the insurgent
Brigadier-General Tayo was dead.
Colonel Marito met the insurgent lead
er, Eduardo Garcia, who, in conjunc
tion with other leaders, had a force of
2,000 men at tbe farm of Vinola, iu
Matanzas, near the great Southern
swamp, ibe battalion of Alfonso Doce
opened Are and the insurgents re
treated, leaving sixteen killed, two
prisoners, their arms and ammunition.
Accidental Death of a Child.
Dayton, Or., May 27. A frightful
aocident occurred near Wheatland, ten
miles south of here, in which a 6-year-
old girl of D. Magill, a farmer, was
killed. It seems tbe grandfather of the
little girl was coming out of the house,
with the hammers of a gun cocked, to
shoot a Chinese pheasant, which was
near the house. He stumbled and both
barrels of the gun were discharged.
the contents entering one of tbe lower
limbs of the little girl near the bip.
and entirely severed tbe limb from tbe
body. Tbe child died Boon after from
loss of blood.
are not such in fact, but are sympa
thizers with and aiders of the rebel
lion, or pillagers and destroyers of prop
erty. It is easy to justify these acts.
No nation has recognized the belliger
ency of the Cuban rebels. It is only
just to say that it is the volunteers,
rather than the regular Spanish soldiers
who are guilty ot thes excesses. It is
true, also, that tbe shedding of blood
of nonoombatants is not confined to the
Spanish troops. In Pinar del Rio
there is a revel of death in which
Maoeo, as well as the Spanish volun
teers, is a prime figure. The rebel
general dominates in that province,
through fear. His orders have gone
forth, with the penalty of death at
tached, and the violation of those edicts
has been followed with summary pun
ishments. The insurgents, it is said,
hang those whom they condemn, rather
than to put them to death with tbe
machette.
'This is the character ot the war
being waged in Cuba, and it presents
the same questions of humanity which
led Grant to propose intervention in
the revolution of 1868.
Condaaaad Kacord of the Dolnga mt the
Nation's Lawenakera-aenaM.
Washington. May 26. In tbe senate
today Butler renewed tbe motion to
take np the bill prohibiting tbe issue
of interest-bearing bonds. After some
sparring Hill interposed tbe objection
that this wss too important question
to be consdered "without a quorum."
This was tbe first evidenoe of a renew
al of tbe obstruction. A quorum being
found quickly, the motion was adopt
ed, the vote being ayes, 84, noes, 20.
With the understanding that the But
ler bill should not be prejudiced, a bill
was passed to quiet titlej to lands to
persona who bad purchased in good
faith, without notice, and for a valu
able consideration, to enable the gov
ernment to issue patents on such lands
and providing that commutations of
homestead entries shall take effeot
from the date of settlement, and not
from the date of entry.
Washington May 27. The general
deficiency appropriation bill, the last
of tbe supply bills, was before the sen
ate throughout the day and passed just
oeiore adjournment It temporarily
displaced tbe bill to prohibit tbe issue
of bonds. As passed, the bill carries
about $10,000,000, an increase of $6,
000,000 over tbe bouse bill. Tbe most
important amendment agreed to np to
2 o'clock was that of $1,642,979. to the .
Southern Paoiflo company for the
transportation of mails. At 2 o'clock
the bond bill was formally laid before
the senate, and Pritchard was recog
nized, but after some discussion the
bond bill was informally laid aaide
and the consideration of tbe deficiency
bill oontinued. All the oommittee
amendments were agreed to.
Washington, May 28. Tariff and
finance each oame in for a share of
consideration in the senate today.
Early in tbe day Sherman succeeded in
having the filled oheeae bill taken up,
whereupon Dubois offered an amend
ment adding 76 cents per barrel to tbe
tax on beer. The senator said his
amendment was intended to test tbe
sincerity of senators who expressed a
desire to aid the treasury by raising
more revenue. Sherman opposed the
amendment as a skillful means to de
feat the oheese bill. Hia motion to
table the Dubois amendment was de
feated, 25 to 80. On the question of
adopting tbe amendment the debate
became general, Senators Mills and
Gray supporting aud Nelson, Aldriob
and Vilas opposing it The bill and
the pending beer amendment was dis
placed at 2 o'clock by the bond bill.
whioh was advocated by Pritchard and
opposed by Lindsay.
Honae.
Washington, May 25. The Phillips
labor commission bill, which was to
have come to a vote in the house today
under the speoial order, was completely
crowded out by the conference report
on the river and harbor, and sundry
civil bills. The oonferenoe report on
the river and harbor bill, whioh re
ported an agreement on all the itema
save that relating to tbe Santa Monica
and San Pedro harbors, was made tbe
basis of a very bitter attack on the bill
by Hepburn and Dockery. The latter
said he opposed this measure because it
contained riotous appropriations not
warranted by the condition of the treas
ury. He said he realized that his re
marks would not be punotuated by ap
plause. At tbe mgbt session, Cum-
mings made a stirring speech, appeal
ing to his Democratic friends not to
stand in the way of meritorious pen
sion bills. Twelve bills were favor
ably acted on.
Washington, May 27. Shortly after
the opening of the session today, the
bouse went into a committee of the
whole to oonsider tbe bill to repeal tbe
free-alcohol clause of the existing tariff
law. Evans, in charge of the bill,
opened tbe debate in support of tbe
measure, explaining the necessity of
tbe legislation. He said the bill would
not affeot the claims now pending,
amounting to $15,000,000. Evans
offered the amendment to the bill
whioh had been agreed upon as a com
promise by some of the friends and op
ponents of tbe measure. It provided
for a joint committee of three members
from each house of oongress to consider
all questions relating to the free use of
alcohol in the arts, to report their
conclusions to congress in December.
At 5 o'clock the committee rose.
Strode presented the majority report in
tbe oontested election case of Martin
vs. Lockhart, from the sixth North
Carolina district, and at 5:15 the house
adjourned.
Washington, May 28. The house to
day, by a vote of 165 to 69, passed the
bill for the repeal of section 61, of the
present tariff law, providing for a re
bate on alcohol used in the arts or
medicinal compounds. An amendment
was attaohed to the bill providing for
a joint commission to consist of three
members from each house to examine
and report on all questions relating to
free alcohol at the next session. Tbe
opposition to the measure came en
tirely from Eastern and New England
states. An analysis of the vote shows
that 56 Democrats, 104 Republicans
and five Populists voted for the bill,
and 60 Republicans and nine Demo
crats against the bill Tbe senate
amendments to the general deficiency
bill, excepting the French spoliation
claims and claims under the Bowman
act, were disagreed to, and the bill was
sent to conference.
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