ne at CbV.bb
Hal. and one at ....
D00.
' 8an Francisco is to have a world's
lair Jn 1901. It is to be known aa the
Pacific Ocean and International Expo
sition. .
Turkey ia making military prepara
tions in view of a poaaible Macedonian
uprising. Bulgaria is also hastily or
ganizing and arming troops.
President McKinley lias presented to
vuaries a. scnou, cniei oi trie comput
ing division of the United States coast
and geodetic survey, the prize reoently
conferred upon hiui by the Academy of
Trance.
Mrs. Cordelia Bolkin, found guilty
ty a San Franoisco oourt of the murder
of Mrs. John F. Dunning, has been
sentenced to prison for life, the judge
refusing a now trial. The case will be
appealed.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
lias issued a stutement setting forth
that the fighting at Manila was only
an outpost skirmish designed to influ
ence the vote in the United States sen
ate on the peace treaty.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war is devoting all of its
energies to closing np its report. The
rough draft ia praotioally completed,
nd copies are being made of the docu
ment, so far as it is ready.
It is said administration officials are
urging the president to endeavor io en
list the servioes of Aguinaldo in the
settlement of the Philippine question,
.at he has the services of General Go
oes in the pacification of Cuba.
Lord Charles Beresford, the distin
guished British naval officer and states
man, will arrive in Sun Francisco on
the Japanese steamer American Maru,
doe on February 11, and the chamber
of commerce ia arranging for a public
leoeption to the Englishman.
The situation at the raining camp of
Independence, 18 miles from Aspen,
Colo., is oritical in the extreme. Star
vation stares the inhabitants of the
town in the face. Provisions and fuel
tupplies are nearly exhausted. Wood
that had been cut and piled for winter
use lies buried under many feet of
now, and cannot be reached. Roads
leadino to Ahiien. the nnlv snuraa nf
O ' - -J
inpply for Independence, are impassa
ble. Snowslides are so frequent be
tween Aspen and Independence that it
is almost suioiuul to venture on the
toute.
The transports, Ohio and Senator,
bearing the Twenty-second infantry to
the Philippines have sailed from San
Francisco.
The second battalion of the Seven
teenth infantry are en route to Manila
via New York. They sailed from that
fiort on the transport Sherman,
The largest combination of whisky
nd distilling interests yet attempted
has been concluded in New York, un
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
ft Warehouse Company.
Negotiations for the consolidation of
the leading pottery interests have been
concluded in New York by the forma
tion of the Amer.can pottery compa
nies, with a capitalization of $40,000,
000. A snow-slide occurred on the Cana
dian Pacific at Itogeis Pass, in the Sel
kirk range. The railroad roundhouse
and other buildings were demolished.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and two injured.
Contiaots have been let for the erec
tion of a huge beet-sngur factory at
A mors, a small town west of Omaha,
on the Union Pacific. The men who
are furnishing the money to build the
factory are Boaton capitalists.
The United States transport Grant,
which left New York January 19, hav
ing on board Major-General Law ton,
the Fourth infantry and a battalion of
the Seventeenth infantry, bound for
Manila, lias arrived at Gibraltar.
Steamer Rhynland, from Liverpool,
for Philadelphia, went aaliore four
miles north of Penwick'a Island life
saving station. A heavy snow-storm
was prevailing at the time. There
were 43 passengers and a crew of 79 on
board, all of whom were resoued.
There has been no further general
lighting between the partisans of the
rival chieftains in the Samoan islands,
sinoe the last advices except that a
party of Mataafa's followers was routed
In the bush by Malietoans. It 1b ex
jicoted, however, that fighting will be
lesumed, as Mataafa is arresting per
ions who have been already fined and
released. The work of pillage con
tinues, among the houses looted being
Viliina, the home of the late Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist.
Miliar Newt Item.
The town of Stilosboro, Ga., was
nearly wiped out of existence recently
by a tornado. No lives were lost, but
several people were injured.
There is trouble is sight for all the
Chinese in the United States, resulting
from the total disappearance of Chinese
who were admitted to the country in
ordoi to take part in, the trans-Mississippi
exposition. Inspector James
Rone, of the government service, it in
vestigating the situation.
,upicit)ntative Stallings, of Ala
bams,' has introduced in the house a j
bill to authorize the president to ap-;
nnint. rjnnoml Whenler n mainr-ceneral '
in the regular army. jf$
The government forces ceieated and
captured the Colorados, who recently
revolted against Senor Cuestes, the
provisional president of Uruguay.
Tranquility is now restored.
Agonoillo, the representative of the
so-called Filipino government, and who
left this country for Canada, upon hear- J
ing of the outbreak at Manila is being
o.'osely watohed by aeoret service de-
tectives. Agoncillo was in Montreal
at last reports.
Mrs. Botkin's attorneys have given
notice of an appeal from the conviction
and sentence of lite imprisonment re
cently passed upon her. Judge Carroll
Cook allowed 10 daya' stay of execu
tion, and SO days in which to prepare
a bill Of exceptions.
President McKinley has pronounced
sentence on Gen. Eagan, recently tried
by court-martial. The sentence was
dismissal from the army, but the presi
dent commoted this to suspension for
pix years, which covers the time prior
to Eagan's retirement in 1905.
The steamers Jnstin and Celtic, now
at Mare island, are being overhauled,
and in a few days will be ready to sail
for the Philippines, following the sup
ply vessel Centennial, which left on
the 6th. The Justin will carry coal
for the fleet and the Celtic frozen meat.
Bear Admiral Dewey has captured
another aohooner from Hong Kong load
ed with arms and ammunition intended
for the insurgents in the Philippines.
It is reported that the German consul
at Hong Kong was concerned in the
procuring and disputoh of the arms to
the 'islands. .
General Count von Caprivi, former
chancellor ot the German empire, died
at Siren, near Cioaeen, Germany.
The peace treaty was ratified by the
senate by a majority of three votes over
the required three-fourths. The treaty
was ratified without amendment.
Isaao Ofner, a gmoeryman, doing
business in Portland, Or., was held up
and robbed in his store about 8:30 in
the evening by a lone highwayman.
John M. Comstock, for 40 years
chief of the customs division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton after an illness of several weeks.
A monster petition to President Mc
Kinley and the members of the joint
high oommiBsion is being signed, ask
ing their assistance in seeming the re
peal of the alien exclusion act recently
passed by the government of British
Columbia, in which the Atlin mining
district is looated.
Farmers of Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Oil io, Indiana, South Da-,
kota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
bus, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Arkan
sas and California are forming state
branches of the proposed new national
farmer's party, and preparing to send
representatives to the national execu
tive committee's meeting, which is to
be called shortly by the projectors of
the new party.
According to a recent dispatch, 19
Iron and steel sheet manufactories in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Indiana, controlling an
aggregate annual output of 818.000
tons of steel and iron sheets, are pre
paring to consolidate. This action, it
is added, is made necessary by the com
bination of tin-plate plants, and it ia
believed that the proposed consolida
tion will eventually be absorbed by the
tin-plute trust.
Local representatives at Tacoma ad
mit that the street railway systems of
that oity are to be consolidated, with !
Eastern capitalists in oontrol. A com-
nnnv with 13 OOO flOll ounital lino kun '
organized to operate all street-cars and
furnish power to manufactories. A
water-power plant will be constructed.
Representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
the Northern Pacific railway. Union
TW!fl.t B...1 ii.o n r x, xr ,. i i i
A nv i ..vj anvi tug v. . w n.tu IIKiai
men, are interested in the deal.
The two highwaymen who for the
past two months have been holding up
citizens and stores and terrorizing all
Portland are uifelv lixn.l in lull. One
of them, Harry Tracy, was arrested by I
jkctoukivs ti tuner, nuur biiuuuiih
affray that stopped a passenger train
and roused a whole neighborhood. The
other, Dave Merrill, fell into the
hands of Detectives Cordano and Ford
Sunday, and gave tiie information
which led to the capture ot his accom
plice. Both are ex-conviata and des
perate men.
A fatal head-end collision occurred
at Iinlay City, Mich., on the Chicago
& Grand Trunk railroad, in which four
persons were killed and seven were in
jured. R. C. Judson, industrial agent of
the O. R. & N., returned from Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, confirms the news of a
wonderfully rick strike on the Cracker
Jack claim, owned by Kutus Haw ley,
Flint & Co. The assays are the high
est ever seen in that country, running
13,809.55 in gold and (40.35 in silver,
jr working
. i25 miles of
between state in
tjpropriating $3,500
.donee and buying tools,
., vote of 127 to 7.
.1 to make a person who vol
uiu. , charges a crime against an
other fefore a justice of peaoe or grand
jurvfay the costs in case the prosecu
tor? prove malicious or frivolous finally
jjassed, aa did a bill to prevent swine
running at large in Sherman county,
and a bill to reduce the salaries of
Washington county officers.
In the Houee.
The reconsideration of the Woodburn
charter bill was the occasion for an
other spirited forensio battle at the ses
sioW'of the house Wednesday. The
bill, however, passed by a vote of 85
to 15; absent, 10. A motion to reoon
sider the vote by whioh the bill was de
feated January 27 passed unanimously.
Other billa passed were: To amend
the charter of Arlington; to Incorporate
Medford; to fix the compensation of
the assessor of Jackson county at $1,900
per annum in lieu of per diem; to
create a separate board of county com
missioners for Clatsop county'.
The following bills were introduced:
To amend the charter of Medford; to
incorporate Enterprise; to repeal the
act providing for the payment of street
and sewer assessments in installments.
Initiative unit Referendum.
The resolution for an initiative and
reforndum amendment to the constitu
tion passed the senate last Thursday,
having previously passed the house,
and is ready for submission to the next
legislature.
The American Bar Association's codi
fication of laws relating, to negotiable
paper passed both houses. The Curtis
bill limiting the number and salaries
of professors in the state university
passed the house after a sharp discus
sion. Hill's pilotage bill, which passed the
house a week ago, was reported by the
senate committee on commerce and
navigation with amendments striking
out a large part of the bill and leaving
it without direot bearing on bar pilot
age and placing the appointment of
pilot commissioners in the hands of the
governor. The amendments were
adopted, and the bill passed, 21 to 5.
The only change in the present law is
to make river pilotage not compulsory.
In the senate Thursday a resolution
to authorize the exchange of the old
blind institute site for a block adjoin
ing the present site of the blind insti
tute, owned by J. H. Albert, was the
special order, and, after a vote carry
ing the resolution was nearly complet
ed, it was recommended on a state
ment from Selling that he had just
heard something about it that needed
investigation.
The following bills were passed:
To constitute the county court a board
of equalization for oounty assessment;
to extirpate Russian and Chinese
thistles; to appropriate. $4,000 for the
Oregon Historical Society.
In the House
The greater portion of the forenoon
session of the house Thursday was
given up to hearing reports of standing
committees. In addition to this, two
billa were passed and eight new bills
introduced.
Tiie bills passed were those by Cur
tis, amending the salmon-fishing laws
passed at the special session so as to
conform with the regulations agreed
upon by the joint fisheries committee,
and by Myera, to applv to the military
fund of the state all moneys that may
beieceived from the government for
transportation and equipment of the
Second Oregon volunteers.
Other bills passed were: To require
that all claims against the state other
than salaries and liabilities established
by law, be incorporated into separate
appropriation aots; to abolish the ex
pensive practice of oopying assessment
rolls for the state and to provide for
transmission to the secretary of state
summaries only; to provide for the re
organization of the state militia; to re
store to the military fund of the state
$8,897.68 expended in the suppression
of riots by the state militia at Astoria
and Roseburg during 1896; authorizing
the supreme oourt to employ clerical
aid and appropriating $7,200 therefor;
to cgdify the laws relating to negotia
ble instruments; to prohibit false label
ing of Oregon products, applying es
pecially to salmon and Oregon fruits.
Keapiorttoninent Hill Approved.
In the Orogon senate Friday, Sena
tors Smith, of Baker, and Dufur pre
sented explanations of their position
with referenece to the reapportionment
act, which was approved by the gover
nor while they were speaking. Both
opposed the double districting feature
of the law. .
The following bills were passed: To
authorize oounty courts to permit con
struction of logging roads along public
highways; to prevent the unauthorized
use of trademarks.
District Attorney Bill Remitted.
In the Oregon house Friday the ju
diciary committee asked to amend the
bill by substituting 1900 for 1903,
olaiming the figures were placed in
the bill as the result of a olerioal error.
The following bills were passed: To
define the duties ot administration in
payment ot claims, and declare the or
der of propriety ot claims; to give farm
laborers lien upon farm products for
labor perormed; to protect salmon in
Alesea bay and streams emptying into
it. and fixing the close season: '
I
-ouse Almost
f. ' . I
ise Monday the dis
;jlary bill was passed,
.;nt by the judioiary com
., almost a unanimous vote.
..i as passed fixes salaries as fol-
..a:" First district, $3,000; second
district, $4,000; third district, $5,500;
"fourth district,' $7,600; fifth district,
$4,000; sixth district, $8,000; seventh
district, $3,000; eighth district, $3,500;
ninth district, $3,000.
Flagg's bill to require all executions
to be held at the state prison and con
ducted by Jthe superintendent of the
penitentiary waa the first defeated, re
ceiving only 29 votea, but upon recon
sideration of the vote and a speech by
the author later in the day it waa
passed by a vote of 36.
Blackaby's bill to empower county
courts and olerks of school districts to
sell property and bid in for taxes waa
passed by 43 votea.
Other billa passed were: To limit
appeals to the supreme court in money
actions to amounts involving $200 or
more, and to give street railway com
panies the right of eminent domain; to
amend the code relative to new trials
so as to nullify the plea of former jeop
ardy and to require street railway com
panies to provide cars with vestibules
from Ootober 1 to April 1; to prohibit
the adulteration of candy; to require
the Oregon .Railroad & Navigation
Company to fenoe its tracks between
Portland and Huntington; to nrohibit
persons from running push cars or
hand cars on railroad tt.ok8 without
the consent of the railway officials; to
appropriate $15,000 for bridging the
south fork of the Nehalem river. This
bill oame up on a reconsideration of
the vote by which it was defeated Feb
ruary 2. when it received only 80 rotes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 83
votea and then the bill was passed by a
vote of 83.
Grace's bill to extend tlvs time in
whioh a laborer's lion may be filed
from 30 to 60 days and contractors'
from 60 to 90 days was defeated, as
was also Stillman's bill to repeal sec
tion 1890 of the code, providing for the
observance of Sunday.
At the night session the following
bills were passed: To regulate tr.ivel
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving or herding
livestock along public highways; to fix
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to increase the salary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $250 to $550; to
fix the salary of the sheriff of Lincoln
oounty at $1,800 and salary of clerk of
county court at $1,250; to require the
signatures of householders to petitions
for saloon licenses instead of the sig
natures of legal votes as under tiie
present law; to prohibit the sale of li
quor in private boxes or booths of res
taurants; to amend the liquor laws so
as to require a license foi tiie sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulate the practioe
of horseshoeing in counties of 50,000
population and over and creating a
board of examiners to be appointed by
the governor was snowed under by 80
negative votes as against only 22
affirmative.
The Oregon seriate Monday passed
nnanimonsly Josephi's bi'l to make the
coat of the maintenance of insane per
sons chargeable against their estates in
certain cases, and to provide for the
transportation of insane patients to the
asylum in charge of trained nurses
from the asylum.
Other bills passed were as follows:
Charter of Dalles City (The Dalles); to
amend the charter of the town of Du
fur, to amend the law relating to ten
ancy in common, and abolishing joint
tenancy; by request, to give preference
to honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors in all public employment; to
amend the law so as to make records of
official oourt reporters piima facie evi
dence, and to authorize the settling
and signing of bills of exceptions by
successors of the trial judge; to require
Multnomah county to take the city of
Portland's lease of the steel bridge; to
amend the charter of Lebanon.
INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS.
The Washing-tun Legislature Favoring
the Normal Schools.
The Washington- house appropria
tion committee has increased the
Cheney normal school appropriation
from $25,000 to $31,000, and Ellens
burg from $35,000 to $45,000.
In the house Monday bills introduced
were: For the publication ot notices
by posting in counties of from the 10th
to the 29th class; for the relief of Mrs.
J. 11. Stahl; relating to the sufficiency
and justification of bail on bonds;
amending (lie constitution by permit
ting women to vote on a constitutional
amendment, granting suffrage to wo
men; relating to dyke districts.
During the afternoon session of the
house Mr. Englobert ooenpied the
ohair. Speaker Guie received a tele
phone message announciing that the
Paris treaty had been ratified by the
United States senate. The announce
ment was greeted with hearty applause
by the house.
Delayed by Trains.
Only 21 out of 84 senators were pres
ent when the senate convened Monday.
Senator Wooding is sick with grip at
Seattle, and all cf the east of-the-mountain
senators were detained by
trains being late.
Bills introduced were: Prohibiting
the organization ot corporations until
all bills and claims are paid; amend
ing the revenue law by making person
al property taxes delinquent on '80
days' notice being given; permitting
acceptance of taxes on any part of a
parcel of land with reference to taxes
due on other parts of same property;
house bill, providing for the building of
ferries to be operataed on takes as well
as streams was re-referred, because of
objection to the condemnation lights
contained in the old law.
BANQUET STOPS BUSINESS.
The Olympla Solium Adjourn to Dine
With Senator-Elect Foster.
i Both houses of tiie Washington legis
lature adjourned from Tuesday evening
' until 2 P. M. Wednesday, in order to
'give ample time to legislators and
members of the press to participate in
an informal . banquet tendered at Ta
coma by Senator-elect loster.
In the senate Tuesday resolutions
commending the bravery of Washing
ton troops at Manila were adopted..
The Gray-Mantz election case was
taken out of the hands of the committee
whioh had been appointed to submit
the matter to the supreme court, and
the matter will now be praotioally set
tled by the senate as a whole.
The permanent school fund invest
ment bill was amended to permit in
vestment in government and state
bonds at par, 8 per cent interest, or in
county, city and school district bonds
! at 4 per cent. The bill was then or
dered engrossed.
Bills introduced were: Allowing
O. M. Hidden $103.60 for drawing
' plans for the waterworks for the Van
' oouver school for defective youth; com
! pelting the serving of notice of action
I within 90 days after the filing of com
plaints. . At present a complaint may
be filed and while not being served,
1 any accounts involved do not outlaw;
' appropriating $10,000 for the comple
! tion of the state road established in
1887 from Wenatchee via the Methow
river to the mouth of the Twisp river;
allowing cities to advance from one
class to another at a special election
called for that purpose.
House Routine.
At the opening ot the morning ses-
, sion of the Washington house Tuesday
; the speaker presented anothei remon- i
I l .1.. -;..! il
Bi.ianco ironi tiie uuizena or mevens
oounty against the creation of the ooun
ty of Ferry.
j Bills introduced were: To prohibit
the removal of improvements from
mortgaged property, without the con
sent of the mortgagee; prohibiting the
' sale of personal property, title to whioh
has passed by a conditional sale; pre
scribing rates to be charged on sleeping
cars; for the protection of farmers et
al., in the purchase of fertilizers; to
provide for the extons ion of tax rolls
by county auditors; (two bills) to
amend the law relating to the organiza
tion and incorporation of municipal
corporations; approrpriating $715.63
, for the relief of Captain Harry St.
.George; prescribing the manner of
I naino. iha lalial nf tha tvnncvranlitnal
M...n v ' " V- i7 f 6 HJ1IIIUO.
union; approrpriating $400 for a fish
way on the Skykomish river; to enforoe
the payment of delinquent taxes on
timber lands before the removal of the
timber; relating to placing poison for
the destruction of wild animals; relat
ing to the bonds of proseouting attor
neys. The house went into committee ot
the whole on house bill 157, submit
ting a constitutional amendment, per
mitting alien ownership of lands, with
Judge Mount in the chair.
When the committee arose it recom
mended that the bill be referred to the
judiciary oommittee.
Tiie committee on public buildings
recommended the indefinite postpone
ment of the senate capitol bill and the
passage of a substitute bill that does not
recognize the award ot a oontract made
by the old commission to F. H. Goes.
The house indefinitely postponed the
senate bill, and ordered that the substi
tute bill be 'printed.
REAPPORTIONMENT. BILL.
It Is Mow a Law Without the Signature
of Oregon's Oovernor.
Governor Geer Tuesday filed the re
apportionment bill with the secretary
of state, letting it become law without
his signature.
Proebstel'a bill to suppress nickel-in-the-slot
machines passed the senate
Tuesday, alter a short debate. There
was some objection to the bill on the
ground that it would not be enforoed,
but even these objectors admitted it
would have the effect of discrediting
the machines and driving them in)o se
clusion. Other bills passed were the follow
ing: To make the per diem of county
commissioners $3, except in Douglas,
Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Yamhill,
Gilliam and Union, which should be
$4, Umatilla and Harney $5, Marion
$3.50, and Multnomah $100 per month;
to protect salmon fisheries of the Lower
Rogue river; to amend the charter of
Brownsville; to oodify the laws relat
ing to practice in the justice courts; to
require the payment to the sheriff of
fees in civil oases and $12 per day for
the services of the jury; to constitute
the governor, secretary of state and
treasurer a state board of equalization;
to authorize boards of park commis
sioners in cities of 8,000 or more popu
lation; to make state road tax a lien
against speoifio property and collectable
as other taxes.
The memorial to congress favoring
the passage of the pure-food bill was
favorably reported, and adopted.
Josephi's bill to tax bioycles was re
committed. Mortgage Bill Tassed.
The debate upon the mortgage tax
bill of Whitney,, passed in the Oregon
house Tuesday, was at times eloquent
as well as stormy, and although the bill
passed by a decisive majority, the vote
of some of the members was a surprise.
The vote was 89 to 16, absent 5.
Other bills passed were: To make
violation ot the peddlers' law a misde
meanor insstead ot cause for civil ac
tion, as at present; to amend the law
relative to the sale of property for de
' linquent taxes, so as to save labor
1 and expense of posting notices; to es
tablish a fiscal agency for Oregon in
' the state of New York; to regulate the
business of local insurance companies,
by requiring a certain oapital and a cer
tain number of policies before engaging
in business; to appropriate $2,000 for
the relet of J. V. Magnea-
A
The Paris Treaty Ratified by
the Senate.
AMENDMENT WAS VOTED DOWN
A Spirited Debate Preceded the Tote,
Which Was Taken at 8:15 In the
Afternoon Effect of Filipino Revolt.
Waahington, Feb. 8. Before the
Senate convened today the leaders on
both sides manifested great anxiety,
and all seemed to be very much in
doubt as to the final result, ratification
or rejection seeming to depend upon
several doubtful votea. It was known
Saturday that the treaty could muster
but 58 votes. Leaders of the opposi
tion to the treaty were standing as firm
as ever.
After the senate went into executive
session it was reported that MoLaurin
and McEnery had come over for the
treaty, giving the necessary two-thirds.
At the conclusion of the discussion
on the subject, Davis moved ' an execu
tive aession, and at 2:15 P. M. the sen
ato went into executive session for final
consideration of the peace treaty.
McEnery offered a resolution declar
ing that by ratification of the treaty it
is not intended to make oitizens of the
inhabitants of the Philippines nor to
annex the islands permanently, but to
hold them until the islands are pre
pared for self-government.
At 8:05 the bells rung for a vote on
the amendment to the treaty. The
amendment was to make the Philippine
article of the treaty like that relating
to Cuba. The amendment was defeat
ed, and the vote waa then taken on the
treaty. The vote in detail follows:
Yeas Aldrich, Allen, Allison Baker,.
Burrows, Butler, Carter, Chandler,
Clark, Clay, Cullom, Davis, Deboe,
Elkins, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Frye,
Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hanna, Hans
borough, Harris, Hawley, Jones (Nev
ada), Kenny, Kyle, Lindsay, Lodge,.
MoBride, McEnery, McLaurin, McMil
lin, Mantle, Mason, Morgan, Nelson,.
Penrose, Perkins, Pettua, Piatt (Con
necticut). Piatt (New York), Pritchard,
Quay, Boss, Sewell, Stioup, Simon,.
Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Teller
Tburaton, Warren, Wellington, Wol
oott 57.
Nays Baoon, Bate, Berry, Caffery
Chilton, Cockrell,' Daniel, Gorman
Hale, Heitfelt, Hoar, Jones (Arkansas),
Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell
Money, Murphy, Pasco, Pettigrew,.
Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Tur
ley, Turner, Vest 27.
Absent, paired, Cannon and Wilson.
for, with White against, and Proctor
and Wet more for, with Turpie against.
THE NATION'S DEAD.
List of the Killed In the Manila En
gagement. Manila, Feb. 8. The casualties oft
Saturday night and Sunday were a
follows: Fourteenth infantry, Cor
porals B. Soden and Henry F. Thomp
son, Privates Jesse A. Hale, Maurice
L." Seeman, Louis V. Dietz, James
Harveymight, Charles W. Douglas,
Frank H. Issinghausen, Charles A.
Seitz, Alphoneo Bonner and Peter N.
Storment, killed.
Sixth artillery Private W. A. Good
man. First Idaho Major Ed McConville,.
Corporal Frank B. Calwerel,. Private
James Fraser.
First California Privates J. J. De
war, Tom Bryan and Joseph Maher.
First Washington Corporal George
W. McGowan, Privates Ralph Sitn
monds, George B. Reichart. Frank
Smith, Mattias Cherry, Sherman
Harding, Edward H. Perry, Walter N.
Hanson and Arnold H. Moyokel.
First South Dakota Privates Hor
ace J. McCraken, killed; Fred E.
Green, killed; William Z. Lewis,
killed.
First Montana Corporal Hayes,
missing, probub'y killed; Private John
Soronaon, head wounded, probably
fatal.
Firat Colorado Ed. White, miaaing,
supposed to be drowned; Elmer F.
Doran, killed.
. Died oi wounds: Lieutenant Jamej
W. Mitchell, Fourteenth infantry;
Private George W. Ball, First Idaho;
Colonel William C. Smith, Firat Ten
nessee, died of appoplexy at the head)
of his command on the firing line.
OTIS.
ENEMY'S ENORMOUS LOSS.
Two Thousand Dead and 8,500 Wound
ed at Manila.
Manila, Feb. 8. Careful eatimates
places the Filipino losses up to date at
2,000 dead; 8,500 wounded and 6,000
taken prisoners.
The Yakima Volunteers.
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 8. A North
Yakima Bpeoial to the Ledger says:
Three of the Yakima boys are among
the slain at Manila: Matt Cherry is
the son of a well-known farmer of Se
lah valley. George Reichart is of a
German family located on Nob Hill,
and the third is not known locally. He
probably was enlisted in Taooma.
Frank Smith was of company I, ot
Walla Walla.
Oregon Troops Engaged.
Manila, Feb. 8. The Oregon regi
ment participated in a sharp engage
ment with the insurgents late yesterday
afternoon, but drove the enemy back
without losing a man.
Dreyfus Coming Back.
Paris, Feb. 8. A dispatch to th
Patrie, from Cayenne.capital of French,
Guiana, says that orders have been re.
oeived there for the return of Dreyfus
to France, with the statement that
vessel haa been sent to bring him.