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IIILLSHOKO, OltEUOX, THURSDAY, lEJ.UUAKY 2t 1899.
NO. 40.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TKItsK TH KS PIIOM TIIK WIttKS
An tMtrmtliH Ci1hIIuh f Ilnt. Crttm
thw Two llfiiilthr
In m (unlnl Kwrm.
Theodore Kirrheuer, god 00, acci
dentally shot and killed Itla wife at
Nowloiiville, N. Y.
One billion ft ttt Oregon timber,
tm Ablqua creek, was sold in Wlium
in parties few dav sgn.
Tim thermometer ranged fiom 85 to
40 degree bow cru at difTuront
point in Wisconsin tilt) tint of tha
week.
(In tli 17th bullet taken In the Joint
Seaslon of the Montana legislature Hat
tuday, Hun, Wra, A. Clark wa elected
United Slate senator, (
In tlia lower house of congress
joint resolution ha been adopted grant
li)H to VeueKilel Ilia privilege of send
ing a cadet to West Point,
Charge affecting Ilia Integrity ol
District Judge Scott, of (knaha, Mini
seeking hi Impeachment by tit legla.
latere hive been presented to that
Univ.
Kx-Henalnr Htator, prominent llgore
in Oregon (Milltlm fut number of
year, died t liln Inline In ! Grand
on the HHth. cmua to Oregon In
mo.
The Montank Club, of iUooklvn,ltn.
tiered a banquet on thelHth to Admiral
William T. Kampsoii, ami principal
iiiook llin other guest wa Secretary
of tha Navy Jonh U Lung.
A big celebration held In Havana
In honor of tha memory of tlm flrtt Cu
ban president, Joan Marti, Kuur Ihun
and HMiiltt were picfteut, and there
was no disorder of any kimi.
The body of Captain Sturtevant,
pilot of Ilia 1'aol June-IB, haa btwn fnuml.
From the clothing ol th body It ia Ik.
lieved ha waa off ilnty ami asleep when
the disaster wa cawed by the boiler
I'Xplodillg,
General Eagan, trli'd by enurl-mar-tial
on charge of conduct tinbi(xiiuing
an officer anil gHiitlvuian. waa (mintl
guilty and anutonotid to ilimiunwl from
tha army. Tha prcaiihfiit ha tba
)owir tu mitigate ot entirely a't aahla
Did flnillnga.
Tba iliilri.'! attornpy at riilal!ihla
haa notillnl otiiuiiwl for Hmmtor Uiiay,
lii aon, Hii'hanl, and cx-Htate Trta
nror Hu.vwihxI, that h had fi x.vl Mini'
dny, Fubruary 30, aa the ditto (or trial
of tha thrua tlofuiidiinia on tharbatga
of i'unniirnoy in Ilia mlaiiae of tlia
iiiony of tha atuto on duniait In lbs
l'i'iiilu' bank.
Tha New Yoik Kvonlug World piinti
an lnturviw with Julin Shoriuan, In
whluh the lattor forcibly Mproaaaa him.
alt agnlinlt h naloit.
According to Itgiirtit Hiblialiod at
Madrid, HO.000 8mnlli addiira per
iitliml, ohltifly through tifknoaa, during
tha laat campaign In Cuba.
It ia wHrtl in llarana that Uon.
rrl Kulii, with 1,600 Cuban liinur
gnnta, haa takun to the hilla in Haul
Clara, in dutlanva of American author
itioa. A battla haa taknn lac at Ban An
canna, Kcundor, bvtwvvn govtiriiiiicnt
trim pi and iiianrgiitii, Four hnndrnd
men wnra killad and !IU0 wotindud, and
4U0 tnauigonta ware taken iiloiiia,
Tlio premlur, Honor Siignnta, hm nn
nonnoud that tha govttrnmont hatl ilu
cldtid to convoke tlm oottca during tba
aoooml half of Kvbrnary, whitthcr tho
United atuUm aonato ralilloi the poaoa
treaty ot not.
A blcycla aaddlo combine la to be or.
ganlaed and capitnlixcd nt tl.M)0,000
preforrod and t76O,O00 nommoii at nek.
TIkwo already in Una are mi Id to pro
duce 1)0 pur cent of all the aaddlca iwnd
In Noith America ami a fair percentage
of thorn) uaod abroad.
Considerable alarm la felk in ndnilu.
latnitlon clrclng over the poaalbility
that Bpnln and Uerniany may recognize
the Phiripphie repuhlie Mermany
from inteiealed inotivei and Himin to
free the 8,000 or 10,000 Bpan IhIi troop
hold aa priBonuri by Agulnahlo.
The atrike whluh haa been In prog
real at Colon. Colombla, for nearly a
foituight, among the dock laborers, tins
extended to Panama, partly owing to
the fact that the Chilian line of atani
era haa incrottaed tho wiigea ol ita em
ployes, 'thereby auuentiiittiug thu dead
lock. John F. Kennedy, who attained no
toriety In connection with the numer
ous traln-iobberiea and other ci lines In
the vicinity of Kaimtts City, haa been
held without bail at ManaHuld, Mo.,
for a hearing before the grund jury of
Wright county on a charge of train
robbery. The Planters' bank, at Kiuiibm City,
with B capital of 135,000, lim betin
cloned by the atate. The propilulors
are under arreat by older of ftooretniy
of Btate Leaour iuhI AHHinlant Attorney
General JotTrioa. The hank hna no vis
ible aasuta, it ia alleged, .hittevor.
, HI Inur Men llom.
The third regiment, Infantry, has
left Ht. Paul (or New York un route to
the Phllippiuca.
A blltzard hai boen laging over
Wyoming. A leceut dinpntuh sayi the
deep biiow haa a hard eiust, and there
will be much suffering among stuck.
An Iowa syndicate, with f 110,000,000
capital, Iuib nskod conHrena to irnmt a
aubsidy of $10,000 a mile for a railroad
und telegraph line to tho Yukon, via
Coppei river.
LATER NEWS.
Iowa minnworknia arc making an
effort to have eight hours dmiUied a
day'i work.
Nitii trcMta aia to l utiliu-d in
Cuba and Aiueriuan sohlim gialually
withdrawn.
Tha ioiitrolr of the currency re
ceived a tnli'iiram auiioiincing the (all
urn of the Kirat National bank of litis
sell, Kin. The bank's capital was
10,000.
A syndicate comMwd of American,
Canadian, Kngliali and French capital
ists, is making an eifott to secure con
trol of alt tha lailroads in Cuba now
building and In operation, and all to
be ciustriiulttd hereafter.
Tha bishop of Havana haa declared
that t'leolvatant snrvlces cannot lie held
over the graves of the Maine victims In
Columbus temotery, salt Is consecrated
'(round. Amerlcai i were pirparing to
drooraia the gravea on the anuiversary
of the explosion.
The Central ('able Company an
r.ounces that the United Ntatea govern
ment in the Philippines haa modified
the recent prohibition of telegrams in
cipher ol code. Messages In secret lan
guage may now be accepted, subject to
government onesoiship.
The scniite committee nn naval
affairt has decided iiion favorable re
port on the bill providing fur addi
tional pay to laborers In navy-yards
who wotked overtime during the emer
gency of war with Hpsin. The amount
required is sIhiiiI $300,000, and about
0,000 men are involved.
The Filipino junta has received a
cable message from Hong Kong ex
plaining the second proclamation of
the Philippine republic. The message
says: "The Drsl prorhitualinn. In Au
gust, was the work of Agiilnaldo and
the generals. The second Is the unani
mous work of the Filipino assembly."
Ueneral Otie cable the war depail
menl. giving t'le number of death In
his oommnnd since January 7. The
total ia IS, many of whom died of
malliOX. The greater number of
death were of Kansas, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania pi 1 talcs. In
the list appear the name of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington,
January 111, typhoid; Karld A. Jeans,
First Washington, January 90, ty
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, prlate,
Keuond Olefin, diphtheiia.
Cuban Ooneral Homes refuse to
disband hi army unless paid nearlr
100,000,000. lie claim to have 40,000
men tinder arms, for which he asks
pay (or three years' rvice, atthesnme
rateaagiveu American soldier. For
hi own services in the psst he wants
111.000 a year, the same aa paid an
American lieutenant-general. He has
about 800 brigadier generals, who de
maud pay at the rate ol f 5.500 annually
for three years past, besides numerous
other olTU-oia, whose pay aggregates
;t,7R3,0u0.
The North German Uasctte again
denies (he rumor that Prince Hohenlobe
contemphitt resigulng the imperial
chancellorship.
Twenty children are repotted to have
liecn drowned by an lee disaster at the
Tillage of Warpuhnen, Uoirheiui, re
cently. The president has nominated Colonel
Asa 11. Carey, assistant paymaster-general,
to be paymaster-general, with the
lank of brigadier-geuurnl.
A terrible blisxard was general
throughout the Mississippi valley on
the 30th and BOtli ot January, reaching
a far south as St. Louis.
Three representatives of 40 German
lam I lie In the East are looking over
the Faolllo Noithwest with a view to
buying several thousand acres of Ian 1
foi a colony.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, who has
aettled the estate of her lute husband,
Lelnnd Stanford, and who would lie en
titled to :t57,"0S aa fees, lefimee to ac
cept anything for her service.
Companies H, D, K and L, of the
Seventeenth United State Infantry,
413 enlisted men and nine officers,
have left Columbus for the Philippines.
They go via New York.
The American shipping interest of
the Hawaiian Islands have lurgely in
cieasei since their annexation to the
United Btates. There are now load
ing for or on the way to the Island 60
vessels, o( which 35 fly the American
flag.
F, W. Teck, United State coraniia
sioner-gctiernl to the Paris exposition,
asks uongress to increase the amount
set aside for tho government exhibit to
$1,000,000. The first, appropriation
was 105,000, which Mr. Peck say is
entirely too small.
The reported rich strike of gold at
Cripple Creek haa been oouflimed. It
ia the richest ever diaooverod in the
world, estimated to run aa high as
$500,000 to the ton. There 1 blocked
out In one level, at a depth of 860 J"
$5,000,000 woith of ore. ,.:
A. Thompson, agent of ' J(
Seamen's Union at Heattfb tr X Un
less the Shipowners' AasitaHt' give
up trying to put scab seuium on coast
ing vessels, a general strike will be or
dered, and evorv stilling vessel on the
const tied up as soon a she get into
port. The union men will not accept
less than $40 per month."
General Sheridan has complected ar
rangements to send the third expedi
tion of troops to the Philippines. It
will consist of 18 oompanies, taken
fiom the 12th and 17th Infantry regi.
inents.
A dispatch from Cokovllle, Wyo.,
says a snowallde a mile long occurred,
burying several men and teams. All
the men were taken out alive with the
exception ot Burt Handy, who war
dead when found.
GOMEZ' LATEST DEMAND.
Aa Aiki a HO. 000,000 tho rric at
IMibaiMlja lit Army,
New York, Feb. . A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Maxi
mo Ouiiiex, the Cuban general, has de
manded nearly fitO.OOO.OOO (nun tha
United Ktatea and reft-st to disband
bis "army" until the uiuuey ia paid,
lie has repudiuted the arrangements
made by Calixto Oaraia, who came to
Washington with authority (rum
Gome to provide for the return of the
Cubans to their euccful pursuit, and
whuao wurk waa barely accomplii-hed
beore hi sudden death of December 11.
It Was then agreed that the United
Stales in order to secure tbe prompt
resumption of labia- on the plantations
of the Island with a view of promoting
the speedy revival of proeperlty and
settled conditions, should distribute
about $3,000,000 among the 80,000
in mi said to lie still under arms in the
ratio of $100 a man, the officer in pro
portion to their rank to receive a great
er amount, the ordinary enlisted men
to be discharged with sums leas than
$100, depending Uon t lie length of
service and oilier considerations. For
over month the pay corps of tha army
haa been making ready to cairy out
this arrangement, the national defense
fund being available (oi tha purpose.
Gomes has come out against tha
cheme, which was operating satisfac
torily to luuit Cubans, and ha struck
for greater stakes. He alleges that his
army oonsist ot 40,000 men, and he
insists that most of them shall be paid
for three years' service at the rati-s that
prevailed in the United Ktatea army,
lie flic tba data of the Cuban declara
tion of independence February 24, 18V5,
as tho beginning of the perhxl fur
which himself and his force are to he
remunerated, and for himself, with the
rank of lleutenaut-geneial, he will be
satisfied with $11,000 annually, the
American rate for that grade
Gomes has also about 20 major-generals,
for each of whom lie wants
$7,600 annually, and his "army" is
equipped with nearly 20 brigadier-generals,
each rated, according to tbe
United Status army pay table, at
$.1, tOO annually. This a.gregatea the
nice little sum of $3,783,000 for gen
eral alone
BISHOP OF HAVANA PROTESTS.
I'roUsUat arlr Mnt Not He llelit
la i'olembes Cemetery.
i New York, Feb, I. -A Havana spe
cial to the Tribune says: Uishop Han
tander has declared that the Protestant
service cannot be held over the giaves
ot the Maine viotima In Columbus
cemetery. Committees of Americana
were piepariug to decoiate the gravea
jii tbe anniversary of the explosion,
and desired prayers by Protestant
clergymen. Tha bishop saya that the
cemetery 1 consecrated ground and
Protestant service con Id no more be
permitted there than lu a Catholic
ohnroh.
The bishop ia also preparing a pio
test to General DriKike against the ac
tion of thoninnicipal councils in Trini
dad, Colon, Matansa and other towns,
in declailug oeuieteiies free, lie says
that cemeteries are church property,
and that to lake tosiesslon of them is
both desecration and confiscation.
The Havana council is likely to take
similar action. Fee required for
burials and similar abuses were one of
the strongest grievances of tbe Cubans
against Spanish rule. The agitation is
going to have all cemeteries declared
free.
Want an KI(ht-Hour Kay.
OttumWa, Ia., Feb. 2. District No.
13, of the United Mineworkers of
America, which includes the atate of
Iowa, and particularly southern and
central Iowa coalfields, ha decided to
ask for an eight-hour day. The execu
tive committee has called a convention
of miners and operators for February
22 in this citv for the purpose of con
sidering this matter and for signing the
scale for the coming year. The scale
is 15 cents per ton the year round.
A secret delegate meeting of minors
from the camps in the above fields will
be held here the day preceding the
convention.
Alr to Vlult Cuba.
Washington, I eh. 2. Socretary Al
ger and the mem bets of the senate and
house military committees and their
wives will go on a tour thiough the
West Indies. They will sail from New
York en March 6, which is immediate
ly after the adjournment of congress,
in the steamer Berlin, and will begone
until April 1. The paity will live on
the steamer during the entire trip,
and make short trips into the interior
of the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico.
They go to study the military require
ments of the islands
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Washington, fa.. 2,-Dr. O' Keif' I
suggestion ttttt Mtlva troops be utML ;ttanka, etc, tho printer to act only
to the uraetaat aitatit possible is V
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MANY BILLS PASSED.
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Wurk.
In the Oregon etate senate Wednes
day the following bills were passed:
To authorize the construction and
maintenance of floodgate on Dooglas
and oilier slough, LMiglu county; to
require justices ot the peace to submit
complaints to tba district attorney, ex
cept for murder, arson, robbery, grand
larceny, before fee may lie collected;
to piovide a trust fund in Multnomah
county; to authorize the Eugene di
vinity school to confer theological and
biblical degrees; to amend the act
passed last fall So as to make all quarts
and p'aeer claims real estate; to remove
from principal defendants in prosecu
tions (or alioition the shield afforded
by section 2011 of tha statutes, which
alolves them front testifying 00 the
grounds that it might iucrimiuate the
witness; to provide for county clerk
to transmit to the secretary of state a
summary instead of a complete trans
cript of assessment rolls; amendment!
to Grant Pas charter; to permit suit
for (XMsession of real estate to be main
tained by plaintiff not in actual posses
sion; to provide for election of a dis
trict road supervisor.
Hates' bill for clerks of the justice
court in Multnomah county, after be
ing emasculated by atrikiug out the
salary feature, was recommitted be
cause found not to be limited to Mult
nomah county.
Adams' bill to tax dogs also was ie
romuiiited, after considerable discus
sion, (or amendment sous to exempt
cities where dogs are already licensed.
In the house tho bill providing for a
special election in Malheur county for
relocation ot county scat waa made a
Secial order (or Wednesday.February 1.
Upon motion of Curtis, each Wednes
day night hereafter will be devoted to
consideration of local rneasuies.
Dr. Josepbi's insane asylum bill,
shich passed the senate yesterday, was
rushed through the first and second
readings and relet red to the committee
on penal, reformatory and charitable
institutions.
Kherwin's bill, to amend the charter
of Gold Hill, so as to enable the town
to issue $2,600 water bonds, was passed.
The joint committee on fisheries, to
meet a like committee liom the Wash
ington legislature, was excused till Tues
day next. The bill ot Curtis amend
ing the fishing laws was ordered punt
ed and referred to this committee with
instiuctie.nl to bring it to the atten
tion of the Washington committee.
The reapportionment bill waa passed
in the bouse Thursday by tha narrow
margin of one vote.
The bill to create a new county out
of portions of Grant, Crook and Gil
liam counties was defeated.
A bill for protection of trout, and
one for protection ol carwfish were
killed.
A resolution was Introduced to re
strict the introduction of new bills to
February 8, but it was indefinitely
postned.
A resolution changing the date , of
visiting Corvallia by the joint commit
tee from February 1 to February 4
passed.
In the senate the bill to authorize
school olerks ami county judges to dis
pose ot land bid in at sales lor delin
quent taexs came op as a special order
Thursday. An amendment excepting
from redemption by otiginal owneit
land contracted to be sold was offered
and the bill was recommitted for the
amendment.
Bills passed were: To amend the
law relating to certain male animals
running at large, applicable to Eastern
Oregon ranges; to cure defeots in deeds
heretofore made that are faulty in ex
ecution, witnessing or acknowledgment;
to amend the law relating to the mak
ing ot deeds by the sheriff.
The reapportionment bill whloh
passed the house Thursday passed the
senate Friday after a debate consuming
nearly the whole morning session. The
final vote was 23 ayes, 4 noes, 4 absent.
The teport ot the committee appoint
ed at the special session to investigate
the Loewonberg contract at the peni
tentiary was taken from the table, and
amendments proposed to the effect that
the $32,500 settlement be made by
February 10, that not less than $10,000
be paid in cash and the balance in
notes satisfactory to the board, and
then tbe whole matter was made a
special order (or Tuesday at 2:30 P. M,
In the senate the following bills
were Introduced during the past week:
To put in the hands of the secretary of
state the matter of ordering the print
ing of reports, session laws, circulars,
r-wi the written order of the secretary,
C jM that the governor may order the
de-ip of exooutiYe. doounentai?to
jg; am property from danger
. .ususm oy -jfoncj umti
.K lor warnings a train
d rv 1 4nnd exempting from
ms Ik ajes railroad companies
It comply nitMhe law; to prevent
ibinatiorii ' between fire tanca
ipanies to uniinUiiu ratesT 's
Iowa statute; to amend thsti
Woodburn passed; to app'rc. .
,000 (or a flax manufacturing pia' compelling the use of wide
he penitentiary same as was iu. "ajagotiB bearing heavy loads,
juoed in the house yesterday; tojgn, 'Sqder under heavier loads;
"Miipulsory assignment of
ig'isV filiating such assign-
t. v ,
The grOMrtaala Contest.
tie ballot fur . (sputor was taken
'day, at Olympiad with the follow-i-esult:
Foster, 28; Wilson, 27;
tea, .18; Ankeny, 10; Lewis, lj
ardson, 19; Bridges, 1. The fu
sts broke away from Lewis, and
Dies were cast for W. E. Rlohard-
The only change in the Repub
! vote was that ot Eames, changed
iluines to Wilson.
BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM.
The Oreen riran t hoaa aa tha fttate
flownr.
In the Oregon senate Monday after
noon three bills were introduced, 25
house bills were read the first time, two
house bills read the second time and
refeired, and two house bills were
passed.
Haseltine, of tbe committee on horti
culture, reported favorably a bill for
park board in cities of 3,000 yr more
population.
Petition were filed from 28 mem
bers of the Nesmyth Grand Army post,
The Dallea, favoring admitting wives
and widows of soldieis and sailors to
tbe Soldiers' Home: from 18 residents
on the Harlow road, favoring the atate's
acquiring that thoroughfare; from 47
residents of Clackamas county, for the
county court to plank bridges for trac
tion engines; from Portland Woman's
Club, (or the adoption of the Oregon
grape as tbe state flower. The last
named petition was accompanied by a
resolution, which was passed, declar
ing the berbcris aquifolium the official
state flower.
The house bill to create the office of
state biologist was passed, 17 to 10.
Tbe amended charter of tho town of
Adams was the only other bill passed.
Hastdtine offered a resolution of
thanks to Henry E. Doech for his serv
ices to the state at the Omaha exposi
tion, and it was unanimously adopted.
The following new bills were pre
sented: To authorize tbe governor to
let convict labor for not less than 35
cents per day per man for a period not
exceeding 10 years; to amend the As
toria charter so as to permit the water
commission, instead of the council, to
fill vacancies on ita board; to amend
the statutes so as to permit only 6
cents per mile lor private persons serv
ing papers or for jurors and witnesses
in Multnomah county.
Ia the lloiu.
In the house Monday afternoon,
Donnelly's bill fixing the salaries of
officers of Tillamook county, were
passed. A number of bills were read
tbe second time and refeired to com
mittees, and half a dozen bills were in
tioduced. Before adjournment, also,
tbe ball was set in motion (or the res
urrection ot the apportionment bill.
Contrary to expectations, Donnelly's
bill to create Wheeler county out of
portions of Crook, Grant and Gilliam,
which was defeated in the house Janu
ary 26, had comparatively smooth sail
ing today, passing by a vote of 84 to
13; absent, 11; paired, 2.
Myers submitted a report of the
joint legislative committee on fisher
ies, showing that uniform legislation
had been agreed upon at the conference
held in Tacoma Sunday, which was
adopted.
Bills were introduced as follows; To
incoprorate Mettford; to amend the
charter of Arlington; to prohibit exhi
bitions of mesmerism, hypnotism and
artificial somnambulism providing
penalties ranging from a fine of $50 to
$200 therefor; to prohibit laying out
county roads on a greater grade than 7
ier cent, and to require road and
bridge work to be done by written con
tract with the lowest bidder, whenever
the cost exceeds $0; . to abolish the
office of county recorder of Clatsop
county; to prohibit the organization of
banks with a smaller capital than $10,
000; to protect trout, to change tbe
time of terms of court in the second
judicial district.
INTEREST AND USURY BILL.
Washington Srnatori Debate It, But
Take N'u Action.
The interest and usury bill was up
(or lengthy debate in the senate again
Monday morning, but after debate no
action was taken end tbe bill was left
suspended in the air, when the senate
adjourned to participate in the joint
ballot for United States senator.
The Mantx-Gray contest was taken
up by special order, at the afternoon
session, H. J. Snively, of Yakima, on
behalf of Mantx, and W. II. Smiley, of
Colville, on behalf of Gray, were each
given 40 minutes in whioh to address
the senate. The majority and minor
ity reports of the senate judiciary com
mittee practically held that there had
been no election in the Stevens-Spokane
district. The hearing and dis
cussion was continued until Tuesday
afternoon.
One bill was introduced. It provides
that in oities of over 5,000 inhabitants
justices of the peace shall receive
$3,000 and constables $1,200 per year.
Iu the Home.
In the house the bill fixing maxi
mum rates of railroad and steamboat
transportation companies at 3 S,' cents
per mile passed by a vote of 57 to 13.
As amended, it has become a criminal
statute, its provisions iuoluding a pen
alty (or any violation by railway em
ployes. The following bills were introduced:
For the relief of L. D. Groydir, of
Spokane, and appropriating $394 for
enumerating Indians on the Colville
reservation in 1891; creating a railroad
commission and establishing a code of
railway legislation; defining mineral
lode claims as extending 300 feet on
either side of the middle of the vein;
providing for the binding, preservation
and distribution of nublic rennrta bien.
Sjiv of succeeding sessions of tbe leu-
EXPRESS RATES ON FRUIT.
eill latrolaet In nata at Olympla
Calling for a Redaction.
When tbe McLean 8J-cent per mile
railroad and transportation bill came
up in the Washington senate Tuesday,
it was at once referred to tha commit
tee on railways and transportation.
The usury and interest-rate bill was
relerred to the judiciary committee. A
disiiosition not to approve of the house
bill fixing tbe rate on state warrants
at 6 per cent manifested itself during
the discussion.
Bills intwduced were: Reducing
express rates on fruit to 70 per cent of
the rate now in force, and on all other
express matter to 80 per cent of tbe
present rates; for an additional su
perior court judge in Spokane county;
corn pa! ling mineowners to keep on
hand a supply .pf mine timbeayjor tbe
use of emphce; re-establishing munic
ipal euutta in Tacoma, Seattle am)
Spokane.
In tha Ho.
A letter was received in the house
Tuesday from Speaker Thomas B. Keed,
of the national house acknowledging
the compliment paid him by tbe Wash
ington house of representatives in the
adoption of bis rules.
Hill, bill 189, for a constitutional
amendment to exempt $300 of person
al property from taxation, was indefi
nitely postponed but house bill No. 17
for the same purpose, was amended
and advancei to its third reading.
Bills introduced were: Appropriat
ing $593 for the relief of Frank G.
Kiesow, to reimburse him for interest
on claims arising ont of the construc
tion of the Cheney normal school build
ing; allowing three months from date
of publication of administrator's notice
to present claims against the estate of
a deceased person: prescribing a code
of mining laws; exempting mutual fire
associations from the license require
ments of the state law; making wages
and salaries of all agents and employes
of counties, municipalities and school
districts subject to garnishment and
attachment for all debts contracted in
tbe atate, subject to exemption for
heads of families.
The house bill making the district
that remains when division occurs to
establish a new school district respon
sible for debts for permanent improve
ments, was advanced to third reading.
Bills killed were: Relating to pub
lic instruction; for a constitutional
amendment to govern alien ownership
of leal estate; fixing rates of interest
on countv, school ana municipal war
rants; making county warrants receir
able for county taxes.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILL.
ReeoBalderatlon failed In the Home
at Salem.
The effort to obtain reconsideration
of the reapportionment bill in the
house Tuesday, which gave promise of
a bitter fight at the close of tbe session
Monday, has failed. After a debate
of over an hour, the decision of the
speaker in holding that the bill had
passed beyond the jurisdiction ot the
house was sustained bv a vote of 32 to
20; absent 7.
Stillman's amendments to the house
rules providing for reference of bills
before being read and ordered printed
m tbe interest of economy of time and
expense was adopted, and the senate
concurrent resolution adopting the
Oregon grape as the state flower was
concurred in.
Sherwin's beet-sugar bill, which was
defeated by five votes in the bouse last
week, was this afternoon passed by tiie
narrow margin of one vote, the afhrina
tive vote being 81, negative 27, and
two members being absent.
In addition to the sugar-beet bill,
the following other bills were passed:
To prohibit tbe driving of fish-trap
piles so as to interfere with navigation;
to require the submission of new char
ters or charter amendments to the vote
of electors before being introduced in
the legislature; allowing executors or
administrators to complete written
contracts of decedents.
Fifty-nine bills were read the second
time and referred, and 10 bills were
read the first time.
Io the Senate.
Ten bills were introduced in Oregon
state senate Tuesday and three passed,
one to incorporate Warrenton, and one
to fix salaries in Morrow, Clackamas
and Yamhill counties, and the other
was Daly's text-book commission bill,
which finally went through by a vote
of 22 to 6, after a discussion of fully an
hour.
Special order was the resolution
passed by the legislature of 1895, for a
constitutional amendment for woman
suffrage. Mrs. Duuiway, on invitation
of the senate, made a neat address ol
five minutes, after which the resolu
tion was passed, with only President
Taylor voting no.
Kelly, of the committee un revision
of laws, reported adversely on Uufur's
bill to admit widows end wives of hon
orably discharged Union sailors and
soldiers to the Soldier's Home, on the
ground that to provide accommodations
for such would require a large appro
pi hit ion of money.
Bills introduced weie as follows: To
reduce the appropriation for the Sol
die's Hume from $12,000 to $10,000
and authorize the governor instead of a
board of trustees to appoint all officers
of that institution; to authorize an ad
ditional judge for the second judicial
distriot; to create the office of recorder
of Folk county, at a salary ot $1,000,
and reducing the county olerk's salary
from $1,000 to $1,200; making taxes
a first lieu on real estate; to reduce the
salaries of the Multnomah eouiity
clerk, clerk of the circuit oourt and re
corder, after the expiration of the pres
ent term, from $3,500 to $2,500; to
abolish the oflioe of recorder of Clatsop
county; to protect fish against destruc
tion by explosives; to prohibit the lay
ing out of county loads of greater
grades than 7 per oent; for the better
enforcement of judgments and decreet,
FOSTER FOR SENATOR
The Choice of Washington
Legislature.
NOMISEE OF REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
Wllion Withdraw In HI for, and the
Aakaar-Haine forces Halted
the Caucus.
Addison G. Foster, of Tacoma, who
received 68 votes in the Republican
caucus held Tuesday evening, was at
12 o'clock Wednesday elected to repre
sent the state ot Washington at the na
tional capital, t
The noroinathin of Foster in the cau
cus Tuesday night was brought about
by the Wilson following coming over
to Foster late in the aitcrnoon. They
signed an agreement to suppott him in
the caucus. To his intimate friends,
Wilson stated that he had expected
support from various sections of the
state that did not coma to him, and
that althoogh be had promised from
day to day that he would make a bet
ter showing, he had to admit that ho
could not bring to him support that lie
had counted upon. It was then agre-id
that bis men should be released. There
upon the Foster managers opened ne
gotiations to take Wilson's men into
camp, which they did very gracefully.
BOX. ADDISON O. rOSTEB.
When Speaker Goie, of tbe house of
representatives, called the caucus to
order, Senator Wilshire, of Seattle,
representing the united King county
and Ankeny forces, stated that the ob
ject of the caucus call, under which
they were operating was signed with
the understanding that the caucus, as a
whole, was to select a man for senator,
and that it was unfair for any part of
the members to organize within the
caucus and decide upon the man to be
selected. This statement waa received
with indulgent smiles by the Foster
men. At the conclusion of the Wil
shire statement, the Ankeny men, with
the exception of Gose, of Walla Walla,
Ankeny's home bolted.
Wednesday was the anniversary of
the election of John L Wilson.
The New Senator.
Addison G. Foster was born in
Belchertown. Mass., 61 years ago.
Early in life his parents removed to
Illinois, end when a young man, Mr.
Foster's father located in Central Wis
consin. There young Foster had ids
first experience in lumbering. He as
sisted his father in clearing a farm in
the Wisconsin forests, and later moved
to Wabasha, Minn. At that p'ace he
was elected, while a young man, coun
ty surveyor, and later county auditor.
These were the onlv public offices he
ever accepted. While at Wabash, he
engaged in the grain, fuel and real es
tate business. In 1873 he moved to
St. Paul to engage in the lumber and
fuel business with Colonel U. W.
Griggs, now at Tacoma. At St. Paul
he formed the acquaintance and friend
ship of Senator G. K. Davis, Senator
Knute Nelson and other prominent Ke
poblicans of the Middle West. He has
always been successful in business and
equally successful whenever he engaged
in politics.
Mr. Foster moved to Tacoma in 1887,
to engage with Colonel Griggs and
others in the manufacture of lumber.
His principal company is known as
the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com
pany, and operates one of tbe largest
sawmills on Puget sound. He is an
extensive owner of coal and coke
mines, and of timber lands in tbe state
of Washington. His compauy is also
engaged iu the shipping business, send
ing cargoes, principally ot lumber, tc
til parts of the world. ,
. Foster on National Isines.
Regarding his position on national
issues, Mr. Foster says:
"I favor what is oommonly termed
the expansion policy. Under a business-like
arrangement I favor the build
ing of the Nicaragua canal. I am for
sound money and a thorough business
mail's administration of our public
affairs. I favor an open river policy
for the Columbia and as a general
proposition favor river and harbor im
provements of all kinds. In a word, I
desire to see the possibilities of the
Paoiiio coast, particularly of my own
state, realized, and I shall do all in my
power to advance the muterial welfare
of Washington." .
The men who voted for Foster from
start to finish are:
Baker, Barlow, Bedford, Bellow,
Bishop, Brown, Corey, Diokson, Frye,
Hamilton, Hammer, Heilig, Kings
bury, Le Crone, Maxwell, McCoy, E.
C. Miller, Brown of Whatcom, Parkor,
Sharp, Shelter, Stewart, Warburton,
Wiokersh&m.
Of this number, 12 are member ot
the Pierce county delegation, the rock
around which the great fight waa made.
Bellows and Fiye were among the
outside supports west of the mountains.